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Burchinal, Margaret; Appelbaum, Mark I. – Child Development, 1991
Quantitative growth curve models for estimating individual developmental functions from various types of longitudinal data are discussed in the context of investigator assumptions and research design characteristics. Linear and nonlinear models that estimate growth curves are illustrated, and contrasted when they are fit to speech development…
Descriptors: Children, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition