This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art
approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies. Comprehensive
coverage of the most popular analysis tools allows readers to pick
and choose the techniques that best fit their research. The
analyses are illustrated with examples from major longitudinal data
sets including practical information about their content and
design. Illustrations from popular software packages offer tips on
how to interpret the results. Each chapter features suggested
readings for additional study and a list of articles that further
illustrate how to implement the analysis and report the results.
Syntax examples for several software packages for each of the
chapter examples are provided at
www.psypress.com/longitudinal-data-analysis .
Although many of the examples address health or social science
questions related to aging, readers from other disciplines will
find the analyses relevant to their work. In addition to
demonstrating statistical analysis of longitudinal data, the book
shows how to interpret and analyze the results within the context
of the research design. The methods covered in this book are
applicable to a range of applied problems including short- to
long-term longitudinal studies using a range of sample sizes.
The book provides non-technical, practical introductions to the
concepts and issues relevant to longitudinal analysis. Topics
include use of publicly available data sets, weighting and
adjusting for complex sampling designs with longitudinal studies,
missing data and attrition, measurement issues related to
longitudinal research, the use of ANOVA and regression for average
change over time, mediation analysis, growth curve models, basic
and advanced structural equation models, and survival analysis.
An ideal supplement for graduate level courses on data analysis
and/or longitudinal modeling taught in psychology, gerontology,
public health, human development, family studies, medicine,
sociology, social work, and other behavioral, social, and health
sciences, this multidisciplinary book will also appeal to
researchers in these fields.
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