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Annotation This book provides a systematic exposition of a group-based statistical method for analyzing longitudinal data in the social and behavioral sciences and in medicine. The methods can be applied to a wide range of data, such as that describing the progression of delinquency and criminality...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nagin, Daniel S., 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Longitudinal method.
Age factors in disease.
Longitudinal Studies
Psychology > methods
Age Factors
Models, Psychological
Models, Statistical
Méthode longitudinale.
Maladies > Facteurs liés à l'âge.
Psychologie > Méthodes de simulation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction and Rationale
  • 2. The Basic Model
  • 3. Groups as an Approximation
  • 4. Model Selection
  • 5. Posterior Group-Membership Probabilities
  • 6. Statistically Linking Group Membership to Covariates
  • 7. Adding Covariates to the Trajectories Themselves
  • 8. Dual Trajectory Analysis
  • 9. Concluding Observations
  • References
  • Index.

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