Handbook of longitudinal research: design, measurement, and analysis

 Content: 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 millennium 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: Respondent recall / Jennifer K. Grotpeter --
 8. Review and summary of studies on panel conditioning / David Cantor --
 9. Reliability issues in Longitudinal research / Toon W. Taris --
 10. Orderly change in a stable world: the antisocial trait as 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 inferences in longitudinal experimental research / Jos W. R. Twisk --
 part IV. Description and measurement of qualitative Change: 19. Description and measurement of qualitative change / 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 latent class analysis / C. Mitchell Dayton --
 23. Latent class models in longitudinal research / Jeroen K. Vermunt... [et al.] --
 part V. Timing of qualitative change: event history analysis: 24. Nonparametric Event History Analysis: Life Table Models / 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 it so when, an event occurs / Margaret K. Keiley... [et al.] --
 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 VI. 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.