The book “Longitudinal Research with Latent Variables” addresses the great majority of researchers in the behavioural and related sciences, in academic as well as non-academic environments. This includes readers who are involved in research in psychology, sociology, education, economics, management, and medical sciences.It is meant as a reference work for all those actually doing longitudinal research.The book also addresses methodologists and statisticians, who are professionally dealing with longitudinal research, to provide standards for state of the art practices. It specially offers PhD students in the fields indicated the means to carry out longitudinal research with latent variables.
  
Title:Longidinal Research with Latent Variables
Author:Kees van Montfort Johan H.L. Oud Albert Satorra
Hardcover: 310pages
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 9783642117596

contents
1 Loglinear Latent Variable Models for Longitudinal Categorical Data
2 Random Effects Models for Longitudinal Data
3 Multivariate and Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis
4 Longitudinal Research Using Mixture Models
5 An Overview of the Autoregressive Latent Trajectory (ALT) Model
6 State Space Methods for Latent Trajectory and Parameter Estimation
7 Continuous Time Modeling of Panel Data by means of SEM
8 Five Steps in Latent Curve and Latent Change Score Modeling with Longitudinal Data
9 Structural Interdependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity