In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your variables, your parameters, or your entire model to help get what you want. Along the way they also discuss living in the dorms, Greek god sculpture rockets, not living in the dorms, Christmas tree timers, Def Leppard, Legos, Annie’s flower shop, laser cannons, chin music, the tail wagging the dog, a zero on the SAT, the Millennium Falcon, Greenday, stupid human tricks, Tony Robbins, Steward Smalley, and Iron Man.
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Suggested Readings
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Curran, P. J., Bauer, D. J., & Willoughby, M. T. (2004). Testing main effects and interactions in latent curve analysis. Psychological Methods, 9, 220.
Preacher, K. J., & Hancock, G. R. (2012). On interpretable reparameterizations of linear and nonlinear latent growth curve models. In J. R. Harring & G. R. Hancock (Eds.), Advances in longitudinal methods in the social and behavioral sciences (pp. 25-58). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Preacher, K. J., & Hancock, G. R. (2015). Meaningful aspects of change as novel random coefficients: A general method for reparameterizing longitudinal models. Psychological Methods, 20, 84-101.
Rogosa, D. (1980). Comparing nonparallel regression lines. Psychological Bulletin, 88, 307.