Analysis of Longitudinal Data Using Latent Variable Models with Varying Parameters

Lt-fwt Latent Variable Growth Modeling with Multilevel Data Bengt Muthen * Graduate School of Education z B r y k & Raudenbush, 1992; Goldstein, 1987), less work has been done i n the area of latent variables. T h i s paper was presented at the U C L A conference Latent Variable Modelling with Applications to Causality, March 19-20, 1994. T h e research was supported by a grant from the Office of Educa- tional Research and Improvement, Department of Education to the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing ( C R E S S T ) and grant A A 08651-01 from N 1 A A A . I thank Siek-Toon K h o o , Guanghan L i u , and Ginger Nelson GofT for helpful assistance. Ua^TdeU M^obJb^ l(