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Li, Fuzhong; Duncan, Terry E.; Duncan, Susan C.; Acock, Alan – Structural Equation Modeling, 2001
Presents a new approach that extends conventional random coefficient growth models to incorporate a categorical latent trajectory variable representing latent classes or mixtures. Provides a didactic example of this new methodology using adolescent alcohol use data and discusses the method as a tool for mapping hypotheses of development onto…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies

Duncan, Terry E.; Duncan, Susan C.; Li, Fuzhong – Structural Equation Modeling, 1998
Presents an application of latent growth curve methodology to the analysis of longitudinal developmental change in alcohol consumption of 586 young adults, illustrating three approaches to the analysis of missing data: (1) multiple-sample structural equation modeling procedures; (2) raw maximum likelihood analyses; and (3) multiple modeling and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Change, Comparative Analysis, Drinking