Higher-Order Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus: A Practical Guide

This practical introduction to second-order and growth mixture models using Mplus introduces simple and complex techniques through incremental steps.

The authors extend latent growth curves to second-order growth curve and mixture models and then combine the two using normal and non-normal (e.g., categorical) data. To maximize understanding, each model is presented with basic structural equations, figures with associated syntax that highlight what the statistics mean, Mplus applications, and...