Handbook of Longitudinal Research

Part I. Longitudinal Research Designs

1. Introduction: Longitudinal Research Design and Analysis
Scott Menard

2. Using National Census Data to Study Change
Margo Anderson

3. Repeated Cross-Sectional Research: The General Social Surveys
Tom W. Smith

4. Structuring the National Crime Victim Survey for Use in Longitudinal Analysis
Lawrence Hotchkiss and Ronet Bachman

5. The Mellennium Cohort Study and Mature National Birth Cohorts in Britain
Heather E. Joshi

6. Retrospective Longitudinal Research: The German Life History Study
Karl Ulrich Mayer

Part II. Measurement Issues in Longitudinal Research

7. Respondent Recall
Jennifer K. Grotpeter

8. A Review and Summary of Studies on Panel Conditioning
David Cantor

9. Reliability Issues in Longitudinal Research
Toon W. Taris

10. Orderly Changes in a Stable World: The Antisocial Trait as a Chimera
Gerald R. Patterson

11. Minimizing Panel Attrition
Heather Laurie

12. Nonignorable Nonresponse in Longitudinal Studies
E. Michael Foster and Anna Krivelyova

Part III. Descriptive and Causal Analysis in Longitudinal Research

13. Graphical Techniques for Exploratory and Confirmatory Analyses of Longitudinal Data
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice

14. Separating Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Developmental and Historical Research
Scott Menard

15. An Introduction to Pooling Cross-Sectional and Time Series Data
John L. Worrall

16. Dynamic Models and Cross-Sectional Data: The Consequences of Dynamic Misspecification
Ronald Schoenberg

17. Causal Analysis with Nonexperimental Panel Data
David F. Greenberg

18. Causal Inference in Longitudinal Experimental Research
Jos W. R. Twisk

Part IV. Description and Measurement of Qualitative Change

19. Analyzing Longitudinal Qualitative Observational Data
Johnny Saldaña

20. Configural Frequency Analysis of Longitudinal Data
Alexander von Eye and Eun Young Mun

21. Analysis of Longitudinal Categorical Data Using Optimal Scaling Techniques
Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld

22. An Introduction to Laten Class Analysis
C. Mitchell Dayton

23. Latent Class Models in Longitudinal Research
Jeroen K. Vermunt, Bac Tran, and Jay Magidson

Part V. Timing of Qualitative Change: Event History Analysis

24. Nonparametric Methods for Event History Data: Descriptive Measures
C. M. Suchindran

25. The Cox Proportional Hazards Model, Diagnostics, and Extensions
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Lyndsey Stanfill

26. Parametric Event History Analysis: An Application to the Analysis of Recidivism
Hee-Jong Joo

27. Discrete-Time Survival Analysis: Predicting Whether, and if so When, an Event Occures
Margaret K. Keiley, Nina C. Martin, Janet Canino, Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett

Part VI. Panel Analysis, Structural Equation Models, and Multilevel Models

28. Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Panel Analysis
Joseph M. Hilbe and James W. Hardin

29. Linear Panel Analysis
Steven E. Finkel

30. Panel Analysis with Logistic Regression
Scott Menard

31. Latent Growth Curve Models
Michael Stoolmiller

32. Multilevel Growth Curve Analysis for Quantitative Outcomes
Douglas A. Luke

33. Multilevel analysis with Categorical Outcomes
Scott Menard

Part VII. Time Series Analysis and Deterministic Dynamic Models

34. A Brief Introduction to Time Series Analysis
Scott Menard

35. Spectral Analysis
William W. S. Wei

36. Time-Series Techniques for Repeated Cross-Section Data
David Sanders and Hugh Ward

37. Differential Equation Models for Longitudinal Data
Steven M. Boker

38. Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Catastrophe Theory
Courtney Brown