Presents a treatment of a model referred to as latent curve or growth curve model. This book analyzes LTMs from the perspective of structural equation modeling ... » 

Presents a treatment of a model referred to as latent curve or growth curve model. This book analyzes LTMs from the perspective of structural equation modeling (SEM) with latent variables. It discusses simple regression-based procedures that are helpful in the early stages of LTM. The presentations use SEMs as a driving tool throughout the text. «