4 options
A primer in longitudinal data analysis / Toon Taris.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection Available online
EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taris, Toon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Longitudinal method.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 163 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Toon Taris' survival guide takes the reader through the strengths and weaknesses of longitudinal research, making clear how to design a longitudinal study, how to collect data most effectively and how to interpret results.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 LONGITUDINAL DATA AND LONGITUDINAL DESIGNS
- Longitudinal data and longitudinal designs
- Covariation and causation
- Designs for collecting longitudinal data
- A checklist
- Further reading
- 2 NONRESPONSE IN LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH
- Nonresponse in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs
- Better safe than sorry: minimizing nonresponse and attrition
- Detecting selective nonresponse
- Dealing with nonresponse
- Summary
- 3 MEASURING CONCEPTS ACROSS TIME: ISSUES OF STABILITY AND MEANING
- What do we talk about when we talk about stability and change?
- Types of change and stability
- Exploratory vs confirmatory factor analysis
- Using the confirmatory factor-analytic model to assess structural invariance
- Example: loneliness across young adulthood
- Discussion
- 4 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
- Example: income determination among men and women
- Assessing causal direction across time: cross-lagged panel analysis
- 5 ANALYSIS OF REPEATED MEASURES
- Examining across-time growth
- Analysis of variance: some basics
- Analysis of variance for longitudinal survey data
- Example: mental well-being of young workers across time
- Concluding remarks
- 6 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.
- Example: continuity of women's employment after childbirth
- Continuous-time survival analysis: evaluation and discussion
- Discrete-time survival analysis
- Example: the transition towards non-virginity
- 7 ANALYZING SEQUENCES
- Event- vs career-centered modes of analysis
- Measuring career change: characterizing development
- Illustration: sensation seeking, job characteristics and mobility
- Creating classifications of careers: distance-based methods
- Same-order methods: sequencing careers
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610369669
- 9781849208512
- 1849208514
- 9781280369667
- 1280369663
- 9781412933582
- 1412933587
- OCLC:
- 84325704
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.