Methodological Issues in Aging Research (Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology)

344 Pages·2005·29.554 MB·English

by  Cindy S. Bergeman (editor), Steven M Boker (editor)

Methodological Issues
in Aging Research
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The Notre Dame Series
on Quantitative Methodologies
Building on the strength of Notre Dame as a center for train­
ing in quantitative psychology, the Notre Dame Series on Quanti­
tative Methodologies (NDSQM) offers advanced training in quanti­
tative methods for social and behavioral research. Leading experts
in data analytic techniques provide instruction in state-of-the-art
methods designed to enhance quantitative skills in a selected sub­
stantive domain.
Each volume evolved from an annual conference that brings to­
gether expert methodologists and a workshop audience of substantive
researchers. The substantive researchers are challenged with innova­
tive techniques and the methodologists are challenged by innovative
applications. The goal of each conference is to stimulate an emergent
substantive and methodological synthesis, enabling the solution of
existing problems and bringing forth the realization of new questions
that need to be asked. The resulting volumes are targeted towards
researchers in a specific substantive area, but also contain innovative
techniques of interest to pure methodologists.
The books in the series are:
• Methodological issues in aging research, co-edited by Cindy S.
Bergeman and Steven M. Boker (2006)
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Methodological Issues
in Aging Research
Edited by
Cindy S. Bergeman
Steven M. Boker
University of Notre Dame
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Contents
Preface ix
Cindy S. Bergeman & Steven M. Boker
1 Quantitative Modeling in Adult Development 1
and Aging: Reflections and Projections
John R. Nesselroade
2 The Theory-Methods Interface 19
Cindy S. Bergeman & Kimberly A. Wallace
3 Longitudinal Tests of Dynamic Hypotheses 43
on Intellectual Abilities Measured Over Sixty
Years
John J. McArdle & Fumiaki Hamagami
4 Testing and Probing Interactions in 99
Hierarchical Linear Growth Models
Patrick J. Curran, Daniel J. Bauer, & Michael T.
Willoughby
5 A Repeated Measures, Multilevel Rasch Model 131
with Application to Self-Reported Criminal
Behavior
Christopher Johnson & Stephen W. Raudenbush
6 Latent-Class Analysis Approaches to 165
Determining the Reliability of Nominal
Classifications: A Comparison between the
Response-Error and the Target-Type
Approach
Christof Schuster
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7 Dynamical Systems Modeling in Aging 185
Research
Steven M. Boker & Toni L. Bisconti
8 Applying Proportional Hazards Models to 231
Response Time Data
Michael J. Wenger, Christof Schuster, Lindsey E. Pe­
tersen & Ronald C. Petersen
9 The Utility of Genetically Informative Data in 269
the Study of Development
Michael C. Neale, Steven M. Boker, Cindy S. Berge­
man & Hermine H. Maes
Preface
Cindy S. Bergeman and Steven M. Boker
University of Notre Dame
This volume resulted from the inaugural conference in the Notre
Dame Series on Quantitative Methodologies (NDSQM) held at the
University of Notre Dame in 2002. Building on the strength of Notre
Dame as a center for training in quantitative study, the Notre Dame
Series on Quantitative Methodologies offers advanced training for
early career scholars and young researchers from around the nation.
Leading scholars in the field provide instruction in state of the art
methods designed to enhance the quantitative training in a variety
of substantive domains. Although the approaches discussed in this
volume are applicable to diverse populations, the focus of the first
conference was methodological issues that are especially relevant to
aging research.
The goal of this volume is to provide researchers with innova­
tive techniques for the collection and analysis of data focusing on the
dynamic nature of aging. To accomplish this goal, we assembled a
premier group of scholars in the field of methodology and aging to
describe and discuss the application of a variety of techniques, such as
structural equation modeling, latent class analysis, hierarchical lin­
ear growth curve modeling, dynamical systems analysis, multivariate,
multilevel Rasch models, survival analysis, and quantitative genetic
methodologies. These new techniques provide better estimates of the
direct effect of environmental or treatment effects; more precise pre­
dictions of outcomes which in turn increase the diagnostic power of
test instruments; the potential for developing new treatments that
take advantage of the intrinsic dynamics of the course of a disease
or age-related change to enhance treatment; and better estimates
of the dynamic pattern of genetic and environmental influences on
development in later life.
Nesselroade opens the book with a discussion of the challenge
posed by the convergence of theory and method and the impact that
this may have on the future of aging research. A well thought out
and executed program of study, integrating the techniques discussed
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