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A primer in longitudinal data analysis /

Toon Taris' survival guide takes the reader through the strengths and weaknesses of longitudinal research, making clear how to design a longitudinal study, how to collect data most effectively and how to interpret results.

Основен автор: Taris, Toon.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: London : Sage, 2000.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=251795
Подобни документи: Print version:: Primer in longitudinal data analysis.
Съдържание:
  • Longitudinal data and longitudinal designs
  • Covariation and causation
  • Designs for collecting longitudinal data
  • Nonresponse in longitudinal research
  • Nonresponse in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs
  • Minimizing nonresponse and attrition
  • Detecting selective nonresponse
  • Measuring concepts across time: issues of stability and meaning
  • Types of change and stability
  • Exploratory vs. confirmatory factor analysis
  • Using the confirmatory factor-analytic model to assess structural invariance
  • Issues in discrete-time panel analysis
  • Measuring change in discrete time
  • Dependence on initial values: the sophomore slump
  • Change scores: what is the difference?
  • The regressor variable approach and the return of the difference score
  • Assessing causal direction across time: cross-lagged panel analysis
  • Analysis of repeated measures
  • Examining across-time growth
  • Analysis of variance: some basics
  • Analysis of variance for longitudinal survey data
  • Analyzing durations
  • Survival-, failure time- and event history-analysis
  • Survival data
  • Continuous-time survival analysis: hazard function and survival function
  • Analysis of covariates: the stratification approach
  • Parametric and semi-parametric approaches to analyzing covariates
  • Discrete-time survival analysis
  • Analyzing sequences
  • Event- vs. career-centered modes of analysis
  • Measuring career change: characterizing development
  • Creating classifications of careers: distance-based methods
  • Same-order methods: sequencing careers.