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ERIC Number: EJ788259
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Mar
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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A New SAS Procedure for Latent Transition Analysis: Transitions in Dating and Sexual Risk Behavior
Lanza, Stephanie T.; Collins, Linda M.
Developmental Psychology, v44 n2 p446-456 Mar 2008
The set of statistical methods available to developmentalists is continually being expanded, allowing for questions about change over time to be addressed in new, informative ways. Indeed, new developments in methods to model change over time create the possibility for new research questions to be posed. Latent transition analysis, a longitudinal extension of latent class analysis, is a method that can be used to model development in discrete latent variables, for example, stage processes, over 2 or more times. The current article illustrates this approach using a new SAS procedure, PROC LTA, to model change over time in adolescent and young adult dating and sexual risk behavior. Gender differences are examined, and substance use behaviors are included as predictors of initial status in dating and sexual risk behavior and transitions over time.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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