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Lu, Zhenqiu Laura; Zhang, Zhiyong; Lubke, Gitta – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2011
"Growth mixture models" (GMMs) with nonignorable missing data have drawn increasing attention in research communities but have not been fully studied. The goal of this article is to propose and to evaluate a Bayesian method to estimate the GMMs with latent class dependent missing data. An extended GMM is first presented in which class…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Computation, Models
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Wang, Lijuan; Zhang, Zhiyong; McArdle, John J.; Salthouse, Timothy A. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2008
Score limitation at the top of a scale is commonly termed "ceiling effect." Ceiling effects can lead to serious artifactual parameter estimates in most data analysis. This study examines the consequences of ceiling effects in longitudinal data analysis and investigates several methods of dealing with ceiling effects through Monte Carlo simulations…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Monte Carlo Methods