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Title: Growth Models: A Practical Guide


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Growth ModelsA Practical Guide
  • Sarah O. Meadows
  • Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
  • Princeton University
  • October 15, 2007

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Outline of Presentation
  • What are growth models?
  • Nuts and Bolts
  • Hands-On Example
  • Additional Issues

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Part I What is a Growth Model?
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What is a Growth Model?
  • A way to assess individual stability and change,
    both growth and decay, over time.
  • A two-level, hierarchical model that that models
    (1) within individual change over time and (2)
    between individual differences in patterns of
    growth.

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A Rose by Any Other Name . . .
  • Growth Models
  • Trajectory Models
  • Growth Curve Models
  • Latent GM
  • Latent TM
  • Latent GCM
  • Hierarchical Models
  • Random Intercept Models
  • Random Coefficient Models
  • Random Intercept/Random Slope Models
  • Variance Component Models

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Why Latent?
  • Because we assume that whatever process that is
    underlying the thing we are modeling (or the
    behavior we observe) is actually unobserved, or
    latent.
  • The characteristics we observe are a
    manifestation of this latent trajectory.
  • This language grew out of structural equation
    modeling (SEM).

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Why use GMs?
  • Everyone else is doing it!
  • Education
  • Criminology
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Public Health
  • You have longitudinal data and are interested in
    change over time.
  • You may want to explain those changes.
  • You may also believe that not everyone follows
    the same path.

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How Have Others Used GMs?
  • Growth Trajectories of Sexual Risk Behavior in
    Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Fergus,
    Zimmerman, Caldwell. American Journal of
    Public Health. 2007.
  • Individual Differences in the Onset of Tense
    Marking A Growth Model Example. Hadley
    Colt. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
    Research. 2006.
  • Ten-Year Stability of Depressive Personality
    Disorder in Depressed Outpatients. Laptook,
    Klein, Dougherty. The American Journal of
    Psychiatry. 2006.
  • Verbal Learning and Everyday Functioning in
    Dementia An Application of Latent Variable
    Growth Curve Modeling. Mast Allaire. The
    Journals of Gerontology. 2006.
  • You Make Me Sick Marital Quality and Health
    Over the Life Course. Umberson, Williams,
    Powers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
    2006.
  • Parental Divorce and Child Mental Health
    Trajectories. Strohschein. 2005. Journal of
    Marriage and Family.

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A Detailed Example
  • Stability and Change in Family Structure and
    Maternal Health Trajectories. Meadows,
    McLanahan, Brooks-Gunn. American Sociological
    Review. Forthcoming.
  • We wanted to know whether changes in family
    structure, including transitions into and out of
    coresidential relationships, had short-term
    impacts on health (i.e., crisis model) or
    long-term impacts on health (i.e., resource
    model).

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Example (cont.)
  • Trajectories of maternal self-rated health and
    mental health problems from one year after birth
    to five years after birth.
  • Two measures of family structure change
  • Level 1 Time-Varying
  • Level 2 Time-Invariant

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Example (cont.)
  • Results
  • Transitions, especially exits from marriages,
    resulted in short-term declines in physical
    health and short-term increases in mental health
    problems.
  • Little support for the resource model no growing
    gap in well-being between mothers who remained
    stably married and those remained stably single,
    as well as mothers who made transitions.

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Figure 1. Mothers Mental Health Trajectories
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Figure 2. Mothers Household Income Trajectories
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Figure 3. Fathers Mental Health Trajectories
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Figure 4. Fathers Earnings Trajectories
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Part II Nuts and Bolts
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Where Did GMs Come From?
  • Time Series Models (Autoregressive)
  • Repeated Measures ANOVA
  • (Duncan Duncan, 2004)
  • SEM
  • Multilevel Models (HLM)

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Hierarchical Models
  • Traditional
  • Level 1 Students
  • Level 2 Schools
  • Growth Models (a type of HM)
  • Level 1 Repeated Observations
  • Level 2 Individuals

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Unconditional Model
  • Level 1 Within Individual
  • Level 2 Between Individual

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A Latent Trajectory
Latent Depression Trajectory
ß
Depressive Symptoms
a
Time
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Time-Invariant Covariates
  • Level 1 Within Individual
  • Level 2 Between Individual

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Time-Varying Variables
  • Level 1 Within Individual
  • Level 2 Between Individual

Time-varying effect.
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Fixed vs. Random
  • Fixed Means of the latent trajectory parameters
    (i.e., intercept and slope)
  • Random Variance of the latent trajectory
    parameters (i.e., indicates individual
    heterogeneity around population means)

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Part III An Example
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Software
  • MPlus SEM based
  • HLM Hierarchical Modeling
  • SAS Proc Traj
  • STATA

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Data Requirements
  • Three observations
  • For polynomial curves you need d 2 repeated
    measures, where d is the degree of the
    polynomial.
  • Horizontal data file (i.e., one person, one row).
  • Convert data to .dat file.
  • Remember the order of the variables!!

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Self-Rated Health
  • Mothers in FFCWS
  • In general, how is your health?
  • Excellent (5)
  • Very Good (4)
  • Good (3)
  • Fair (2)
  • Poor (1)
  • Repeated measures one, three, and five years
    after birth.

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Setting the Trajectory
Intercept
Slope
1
0
4
1
1
2
SRH 1
SRH 3
SRH 5
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Models
  • Unconditional
  • Model Fit
  • Conditional
  • Time-Invariant Covariates
  • MPlus Graphs
  • Selection and Causation
  • Time-Varying Covariates

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Model Fit
  • Chi-Square
  • Not Significant, but almost always is.
  • CFI (Comparative Fit Index)
  • Range 0 1 1 is best.
  • TLI (Tucker Lewis Index or NNFI)
  • Range 0 1 1 is best.
  • RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation)
  • Under .05 is good above .10 is bad.

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Time-Invariant Covariates
  • Age at Baseline
  • Education
  • Race
  • Biological Parents Mental Health Problem
  • Lived with both Bio Parents at Age 15
  • Number of Previous Relationships
  • Baseline SRH
  • Considered an Abortion
  • Positive Marriage Attitude
  • Prenatal Variables (medical care, drug and
    alcohol use, smoking)
  • Baseline Marital Status

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Time-Invariant Covariates
a
ß
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Figure 5. Mothers Self-Rated Health
Trajectories.
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Selection Issues
  • Intercept
  • Third factor is responsible for where people
    start.
  • Slope
  • Third factor is responsible for where people go.

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Time-Varying Covariate
  • Mental Health Problems
  • Range 0-3
  • Includes CIDI Major depressive episode, binge
    drinking, and drug use.
  • All occurred in the past 12-months.

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MH 1
MH 3
MH 5
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Part IV Additional Issues
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Multi-Models
  • Multi-Group
  • Growth process may vary for each group.
  • Multi-Process
  • Models more than one trajectory.

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Measurement
  • Latent Measures (Multiple Indicators)
  • Dichotomous/Categorical Variables
  • Count Variables
  • ZIP Models
  • Skewness
  • Transform Variable
  • Semi-Continuous Growth Model

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Age-Based Growth Model
  • Synthetic cohort
  • Sample members may contribute different amounts
    of information at different times.
  • Missing Data
  • Drop Cases (default)
  • Multiple Imputation
  • Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)
  • Analysis MISSING

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Mixture Models
  • Latent Class Models (LCM/LCA)
  • Group membership not known.
  • Latent Class Growth Models (LCGM/LCGA)
  • Group membership not known and is based on
    trajectory patterns.
  • No variation is allowed within latent classes.
  • Growth Mixture Models (GMM)
  • Group membership is not known and is based on
    trajectory patterns.
  • Allows for variation within latent classes.

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Contact Info
  • smeadows_at_princeton.edu
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