[100 Amos Questions]Latent Growth Curve Analysis?

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The attribute (e.g. self-esteem) of 50 patients has been measured for a period of 4 months ( some have been measured for 5, 6, or 7 months) using a four-point scale (1=very low to 4=very high). I think the data is longitudinal, which (I think) can be analyzed using latent growth curve modeling. However, I have doubts which need enlightenment from experts as follows: 1) The scale being used was 4-point ordinal; and 2) The time where the initial measurement (Time = 0) was conducted varied across persons because initial self-esteem measures of some patients were obtained in January, some were obtained in April, others were obtained in June, July, etc.

Can the data be analyzed using latent growth curve analysis? Your thoughts are appreciated.

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what's the objective for LGC model?

Latent growth modeling is a statistical technique used in the structural equation modeling (SEM) framework to estimate growth trajectory. It is a longitudinal analysis technique to estimate growth over a period of time. It is widely used in the field of behavioral science, education and social science. It is also called latent growth curve analysis. The latent growth model was derived from theories of SEM. General purpose SEM software, such as OpenMx, lavaan (both open source packages based in R), AMOS, Mplus, LISREL, or EQS among others may be used to estimate the trajectory of growth.

Latent Growth Models represent repeated measures of dependent variables as a function of time and other measures. Such longitudinal data share the features that the same subjects are observed repeatedly over time, and on the same tests (or parallel versions), and at known times. In latent growth modeling, the relative standing of an individual at a each time is modeled as a function of an underlying growth process, with the best parameter values for that growth process being fitted to the each individual.

These models have grown in use in social and behavioral research since it was shown that they can be fitted as a restricted common factor model in the structural equation modeling framework.

The methodology can be used to investigate systematic change, or growth, and inter-individual variability in this change. A special topic of interest is the correlation of the growth parameters, the so-called initial status and growth rate, as well as their relation with time varying and time invariant covariates.
Although many applications of latent growth curve models estimate only initial level and slope components, these models have unusual properties such as indefinitely increasing variance. Models with higher order components, e.g., quadratic, cubic, do not predict ever-increasing variance, but require more than two occasions of measurement. It is also possible to fit models based on growth curves with functional forms, often versions of the generalised logistic growth such as the logistic, exponential or Gompertz functions. Though straightforward to fit with versatile software such as OpenMx, these more complex models cannot be fitted with SEM packages in which path coefficients are restricted to being simple constants or free parameters, and cannot be functions of free parameters and data.

Similar questions can also be answered using a multilevel model approach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_growth_modeling