ALDA Materials by Chapter

An Introduction to Analyzing Longitudinal Data

The following Microsoft Powerpoint presentation and PDF are an introductory overview to the analysis of longitudinal data.

Overview and Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6

PowerPoint presentations, PDF handouts, and exercises for:

  • Overview of Chapter Presentations
  • Introducing the Multilevel Model for Change (Chapter 3)
  • Doing Data-Analysis with the Multilevel Model for Change (Chapter 4)
  • Treating TIME More Flexibly in the MMC (Chapter 5)
  • Discontinuous and Non-Linear Change (Chapter 6)

Chapters 11 and 12

PowerPoint presentations, PDF handouts, and exercises for:

  • Establishing the Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Model (Chapter 11)
  • Extending the DTSA Model in Interesting and Useful Ways (Chapter 12)

Chapters 13, 14, and 15

PowerPoint presentations and PDF handouts for:

  • Describing Continuous-Time Event Occurrence Data  (Chapter 13)
  • Fitting Cox Regression Models (Chapters 14 & 15).

Introductory Guide to SAS for the PC

This manual was created by our colleague, Prof. Suzanne Graham and her teaching fellows, for the S-030: Intermediate Statistics course at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  We thank her for permission to reproduce it here.