Group-based modeling of development / Daniel S. Nagin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagin, Daniel S., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longitudinal method.

Physical Description:

x, 201 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 life course, changes in income over time, the course of a disease or physiological condition, or the evolution of the socioeconomic status of communities.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780674041318

0674041313

OCLC:

1013938021