Intensive measurement designs for research on aging

GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 45-55

  Rast, Philippe ^a   MacDonald, Stuart W S ^a   Hofer, Scott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

developmental change; individual differences; longitudinal methods; multilevel modeling; variability

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DATA ANALYSIS; GERIATRICS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RESPONSE TIME; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYMBOLISM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864269497     PISSN: 16629647     EISSN: 1662971X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000054     Document Type: Article

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