A primer in longitudinal data analysis. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Toon Taris.
• Other Names: Taris, Toon
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 163 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 300.723; Longitudinal method; Social sciences; Longitudinal method; Social sciences; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology; Longitudinal method; Social sciences; Longitudinaal onderzoek; Data-analyse; Aufsatzsammlung; Sozialwissenschaften; Statistik; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781412933582; 1412933587; 9781849208512; 1849208514
• Related ISBNs: 0761960260; 0761960279; 9780761960263; 9780761960270
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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