Group-Based Modeling of Development / / Daniel Nagin.

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 over the li...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (213 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction and Rationale
  • Part I. Laying Out the Basic Model
  • 2. The Basic Model
  • 3. Groups as an Approximation
  • 4. Model Selection
  • 5. Posterior Group-Membership Probabilities
  • Part II. Generalizing the Basic Model
  • 6. Statistically Linking Group Membership to Covariates
  • 7. Adding Covariates to the Trajectories Themselves
  • 8. Dual Trajectory Analysis
  • 9. Concluding Observations
  • References
  • Index