Growth Models Across Frameworks: Multilevel and Latent Curve Models

In this chapterthe growth model as a multilevel model and as a latent curve model; equivalence demonstrated with the sleepstudy and Riesby data; where the frameworks differ (individually varying times and definition variables, residual structures, estimation, global fit); nonlinear and latent-basis growth; multiple-indicator and parallel-process growth; growth mixture models and their fragility; choosing a framework.