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| Patrick CurranSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Building path diagrams for multilevel modelsPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, NC 27599 3270, USA
Psychol Methods 12:283-97. 2007..They then demonstrate their approach using several published empirical multilevel applications and conclude with potential limitations and directions for future developments...
Pooling data from multiple longitudinal studies: the role of item response theory in integrative data analysisPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychol 44:365-80. 2008..The authors describe and demonstrate each step in the analysis and conclude with a discussion of potential limitations and directions for future research...- Testing main effects and interactions in latent curve analysisPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Psychol Methods 9:220-37. 2004..A worked example is presented, and the use of these techniques is recommended whenever estimating conditional LCAs in practice... - The seemingly quixotic pursuit of a cumulative psychological science: introduction to the special issuePatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Psychol Methods 14:77-80. 2009..The author proposes that the methods and techniques described in this set of articles can significantly propel researchers forward in their ongoing quest to build a cumulative psychological science... - Integrative data analysis: the simultaneous analysis of multiple data setsPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Psychol Methods 14:81-100. 2009.... - The use of latent trajectory models in psychopathology researchPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:526-44. 2003..The authors augment each section with a review of published applications of these methods in psychopathology-related research to demonstrate the implementation and interpretation of LTMs in practice... - The disaggregation of within-person and between-person effects in longitudinal models of changePatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 62:583-619. 2011..Potential limitations and directions for future research are discussed, and recommendations for the disaggregation of effects in practice are offered... - Implications of latent trajectory models for the study of developmental psychopathologyPatrick J Curran
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychopathol 15:581-612. 2003..Third, we describe areas for future statistical development and encourage the ongoing interchange between developmental theory and quantitative methodology... 
Linking teachers' memory-relevant language and the development of children's memory skillsJennifer L Coffman
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1640-54. 2008....- Defining risk heterogeneity for internalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parentsAndrea M Hussong
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:165-93. 2008.... - Parent alcoholism impacts the severity and timing of children's externalizing symptomsAndrea M Hussong
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:367-80. 2010..In addition, proximal and time-varying effects of parent alcohol symptoms were also found. Implications for preventing escalations in externalizing symptoms among this high-risk population are discussed... - The role of coding time in estimating and interpreting growth curve modelsJeremy C Biesanz
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 1696, USA
Psychol Methods 9:30-52. 2004..Recommendations include coding time to produce readily interpretable estimates and graphing lower order effects across time with appropriate confidence intervals to help illustrate and understand the growth process... - Child, parent, and peer predictors of early-onset substance use: a multisite longitudinal studyJulie B Kaplow
Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:199-216. 2002..Implications for typology, etiology, and prevention are discussed... - Substance abuse hinders desistance in young adults' antisocial behaviorAndrea M Hussong
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3270, USA
Dev Psychopathol 16:1029-46. 2004.... - The integration of continuous and discrete latent variable models: potential problems and promising opportunitiesDaniel J Bauer
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 7801, USA
Psychol Methods 9:3-29. 2004..However, armed with greater knowledge about the estimation of SEMMs in practice, researchers can exploit the flexibility of the model to gain a fuller understanding of the phenomenon under study... - An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal dataDavid B Flora
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Psychol Methods 9:466-91. 2004..Further, WLS performed adequately only at the largest sample size but led to substantial estimation difficulties with smaller samples. Finally, robust WLS performed well across all conditions... - Distributional assumptions of growth mixture models: implications for overextraction of latent trajectory classesDaniel J Bauer
Department of Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695 7801, USA
Psychol Methods 8:338-63. 2003..Significant predictive relationships may be obscured or spurious relationships identified. The implications of these results for applied research are highlighted, and future directions for quantitative developments are suggested... - Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients < or =45 years of age with acute myocardial infarction having percutaneous coronary interventionEugene H Chung
Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Cardiol 100:1052-5. 2007..The prevalence of smoking, male gender, and family history of premature coronary artery disease were the same for the 2 groups. In conclusion, MS was highly prevalent in this population of young patients with acute myocardial infarction...
Research Grants
- Measurement Models in Latent Curve AnalysisPatrick Curran; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- INNOVATIVE LATENT CURVE MODELS OF ADOLESCENT DRUG USEPatrick Curran; Fiscal Year: 2002..abstract_text> ..