Number of Factors in Growth Curve Modeling
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Peter M. Bentler
- Source
- Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 25:961-964
- Subject
- Polynomial
Sociology and Political Science
Latent growth modeling
05 social sciences
Structure (category theory)
050401 social sciences methods
050301 education
General Decision Sciences
Covariance
Growth curve (statistics)
Set (abstract data type)
0504 sociology
Modeling and Simulation
Applied mathematics
0503 education
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Mathematics
- Language
- ISSN
- 1532-8007
1070-5511
Basic growth curve models parameterize the mean and covariance structure of a set of repeated measures by latent factors that represent the polynomial influences of time. In practice it may be hard...