Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Hc) (CILVR Series on Latent Variable Methodology) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

The importance that practitioners are placing on longitudinal designs and analyses signals a critical shifttoward methods that enable a better understanding of developmental processes thought to underlie manyhuman attributes and behaviors. A simple scan of one’s own applied literature reveals evidence of this trendthrough the increasing number of articles adopting longitudinal methods as their primary analytic tools.Advances in Longitudinal Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a resource intended for advancedgraduate students, faculty, and applied researchers interested in longitudinal data analysis, especially in thesocial and behavioral sciences. The chapters are written by established methodological researchers fromdiverse research domains such as psychology, biostatistics, educational statistics, psychometrics, and family sciences. Each chapter exposes the readerto some of the latest methodological developments and perspectives in the analysis of longitudinal data, and is written in a didactic tone that makes thecontent accessible to the broader research community.This volume will be particularly appealing to researchers in domains including, but not limited to: human development, clinical psychology, educationalpsychology, school psychology, special education, epidemiology, family science, kinesiology, communication disorders, and education policyand administration. The book will also be attractive to members of several professional organizations such as the American Educational ResearchAssociation (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the Society for Research onAdolescence (SRA), the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD), British PsychologicalSociety (BPS), Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), and other related organizations.

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