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The characteristic feature of a longitudinal research design is that the same measurements are obtained from the same people at two or more occasions. The purpose of a longitudinal or panel study is to assess the changes that occur between occasions and to attribute these changes to certain background characteristics and events existing or occurring before the first occasion and/or to various treatments and developments that occur after the first occasion. A schematic illustration of a two-wave longitudinal design is given in Figure 7.1.
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Jöreskog, K.G. (1981). Statistical Models for Longitudinal Studies. In: Schulsinger, F., Mednick, S.A., Knop, J. (eds) Longitudinal Research. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social, and Medical Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8147-8_7
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