growth curve analysis/trajectory analysis/growth change models on longitudinal data analysis (1)

# 初心者 有 SEM 背景

# 想试图整理一下有哪些分析growth curve analysis、trajectory analysis的方法

# 后期用于讨论，所以尽量用英文整理

# (1) 主要是各种model的方法部分，based on publication w algorithm

# (2) 主要是 growth curve analysis with longitudinal design + latent change score 的课程笔记

# (3) 主要是 ALT、LCS 和 LVALT、NLALT 的应用性paper的笔记

 

% 1. cubic orthogonal polynomial regression

(1) why cubic? what is the difference between quadric and cubic? what is the tested dimension?

(2) how to deal with latent factors? how to model and test them with this analysis method? if we have some other factors, like demographics, some other language tests, correlation?

% 2. SEM: latent change score modeling

 

“When thinking about any repeated measures analysis it is best to ask first, what is your model for change?”

 

$ Resources~

- cite: https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-sciences-magazines/growth-curve-analysis

- cite: Encyclopedia of Research Design SAGE, online pdf

- pdf: IV. Growth curve analysis_ an introduction to various methods for analyzing longitudinal data

- cite: https://quantdev.ssri.psu.edu/resources

- youtube

- books

- An example: consider reading-competency tests administered at ages six, seven, and eight. With three measurement occasions, growth curve analysis involves estimating a best-fit line (and a residual or error component). The line for each respondent is characterized by an intercept or overall level and slope or linear change over time. In this example, the intercept would typically be set at age six, with the slope representing the rate of change through age eight, as shown in Figure 1 and discussed further below. The means of these intercepts and slopes represent a sample-average trajectory, and the variances of those parameters across individuals represent the variability in the growth curve (line). The individual variation in growth curves can then be predicted from respondent-level variabl