ABSTRACT
Since this is the first application chapter, we begin by discussing some of the classical models described in Chapter 3; a random intercept model in Section 9.2, a latent class model in Section 9.3, item response and MIMIC models in Section 9.4 and a random coefficient model in Section 9.5. The random coefficient model is used in the somewhat unusual context of a metaanalysis. A more common application for longitudinal data is described in Section 11.3 of the chapter on counts.
