Causal inference in the social and behavioral sciences / Michael E. Sobel -- Missing data / Roderick J.A. Little and Nathaniel Schenker -- Specification and estimation of mean structures : regression models / Gerhard Arminger -- Specification and estimation of mean- and covariance-structure models / Michael W. Browne and Gerhard Arminger -- The analysis of contingency tables / Michael E. Sobel -- Latent class models / Clifford C. Clogg -- Panel analysis for metric data / Cheng Hsiao -- Panel analysis for qualitative variables / Alfred Hamerle and Gerd Ronning --Analysis of event histories / Trond Petersen -- Random coefficient models / Nicholas T. Longford