Higher-Order Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus (2nd ed.)

This practical introduction to second-order and growth mixture models using M plus 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, M plus applications, and a