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Abstract Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, and the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a coaching course, drug abusers may remain abstinent after residential treatment. By charting changes over time and investigating whether and when events occur, researchers reveal the temporal rhythms of our lives. This book is concerned with behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. It offers a presentation of two of today's most popular statistical methods: multilevel models for individual change and hazard/survival models for event occurrence (in both discrete- and continuous-time). Using data sets from published studies, the book takes you step by step through complete analyses, from simple exploratory displays that reveal underlying patterns through sophisticated specifications of complex statistical models.

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CoachingPresentation (obstetrics)PsychologyHazardTest (biology)Psychological interventionLongitudinal dataEvent (particle physics)Computer scienceData scienceCognitive psychologyPsychotherapistData miningMedicine

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J. David Singer, John B. Willett (2003). Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis. . https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152968.001.0001

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