Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Modeling Longitudinal and Multilevel Data; Chapter Two: Multilevel Analyses of Grouped and Longitudinal Data; Chapter Three: A Two-Stage Approach to Multilevel Structural Equation Models: Application to Longitudinal Data; Chapter Four: Modeling Multivariate Change; Chapter Five: An Introduction to Latent Growth Models for Developmental Data Analysis; Chapter Six: Modeling True Intraindividual Change in Structural Equation Models: The Case of Poverty and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment
Chapter Seven: Modeling Simultaneously Individual and Group Patterns of Ability Growth or DeclineChapter Eight: Latent Transition Analysis as a Way of Testing Models of Stage-Sequential Change in Longitudinal Data; Chapter Nine: Testing Cross-Group and Cross-Time Constraints on Parameters Using the General Linear Model; Chapter Ten: Selectivity and Generalizability in Longitudinal Research: On the Effects of Continuers and Dropouts; Chapter Eleven: Mul
Summary
This book focuses on the practical issues and approaches to handling longitudinal and multilevel data. All data sets and the corresponding command files are available via the Web. The working examples are available in the four major SEM packages--LISREL
