Applied longitudinal data analysis : modeling change and event occurrence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Singer, Judith D. (Author), Willett, John B. (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Academic
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
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Table of Contents:
  • A Framework for Investigating Change over Time
  • When Might You Study Change over Time?
  • Distinguishing Between Two Types of Questions about Change
  • Three Important Features of a Study of Change
  • Exploring Longitudinal Data on Change
  • Creating a Longitudinal Data Set
  • Descriptive Analysis of Individual Change over Time
  • Exploring Differences in Change across People
  • Improving the Precision and Reliability of OLS-Estimated Rates of Change: Lessons for Research Design
  • Introducing the Multilevel Model for Change
  • What Is the Purpose of the Multilevel Model for Change?
  • The Level-1 Submodel for Individual Change
  • The Level-2 Submodel for Systematic Interindividual Differences in Change
  • Fitting the Multilevel Model for Change to Data
  • Examining Estimated Fixed Effects
  • Examining Estimated Variance Components
  • Doing Data Analysis with the Multilevel Model for Change
  • Example: Changes in Adolescent Alcohol Use
  • The Composite Specification of the Multilevel Model for Change
  • Methods of Estimation, Revisited
  • First Steps: Fitting Two Unconditional Multilevel Models for Change
  • Practical Data Analytic Strategies for Model Building
  • Comparing Models Using Deviance Statistics
  • Using Wald Statistics to Test Composite Hypotheses About Fixed Effects
  • Evaluating the Tenability of a Model's Assumptions
  • Model-Based (Empirical Bayes) Estimates of the Individual Growth Parameters
  • Treating TIME More Flexibly
  • Variably Spaced Measurement Occasions
  • Varying Numbers of Measurement Occasions.