We inhabit a world of both invariant characteristics and continuous   change. Modeling and predicting these regularities and changes captivated   researchers in recent years and resulted in tremendous advances in the   field of measurement. New Methods for the Analysis of Change reveals those  new trends and emerging themes. For example, as little as ten years ago,   researchers were using traditional procedures emphasizing interindividual   variability that often ignored change which manifests itself in the form   of intraindividual variablity. Nearly all the chapters in this volume   strongly emphasize intraindividual variablity. In addition, missing data   posed a great problem to longitudinal researchers in the past. Now,   missing data is recognized as a subdiscipline within statistics. This   volume presents state-of-the-art methods explored by recognized   authorities on the analysis of change. Chapters highlight methods for   estimating and evaluating models of growth and change over time at the   level of the individual; address issues of measurement that are important   in the analysis of change; point out methods for separating   intraindividual growth from aspects of phenomena that are stable over   time; identify larger frameworks in order to integrate knowledge; and   provide methods for dealing with missing data. This rich offering of   methodological advances will influence a variety of disciplines from   psychology and sociology to education and economics.

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