| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 163 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Longitudinal data and longitudinal designs -- Covariation and causation -- Designs for collecting longitudinal data -- Nonresponse in longitudinal research -- Nonresponse in cross-sectional and longitudinal designs -- Minimizing nonresponse and attrition -- Detecting selective nonresponse -- Measuring concepts across time: issues of stability and meaning -- Types of change and stability -- Exploratory vs. confirmatory factor analysis -- Using the confirmatory factor-analytic model to assess structural invariance -- 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 -- Assessing causal direction across time: cross-lagged panel analysis -- Analysis of repeated measures -- Examining across-time growth -- Analysis of variance: some basics -- Analysis of variance for longitudinal survey data -- 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 -- Discrete-time survival analysis -- Analyzing sequences -- Event- vs. career-centered modes of analysis -- Measuring career change: characterizing development -- Creating classifications of careers: distance-based methods -- Same-order methods: sequencing careers. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Longitudinal method.
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Longitudinal method. |
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Social sciences.
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Social sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taris, Toon. Primer in longitudinal data analysis. London : SAGE, 2000 (DLC) 00131484 |
| ISBN |
9781412933582 (electronic book) |
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1412933587 (electronic book) |
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9781849208512 (ebook) |
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1849208514 (ebook) |
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0761960260 (cased) |
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0761960279 (paperback) |
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9780761960263 |
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9780761960270 (paperback) |
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