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Research Article TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (2011) 11, 42 76 TSW Child Health & Human Development ISSN 1537-744X; DOI *Corresponding author. 2011 with author. Published by TheScientificWorld; 42 Longitudinal Data Analyses Using Linear Mixed Models in SPSS: Concepts, Procedures and Illustrations Daniel Shek1,2,3,4,5,* and Cecilia Ma1 1Department of Applied Social Sciences and 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ; 3Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau, ; 4Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, ; 5Department of Sociology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, E-mail: Received September 27, 2010; Revised October 18, 2010; Accepted October 18, 2010.

use SPSS to analyze longitudinal intervention research would be beneficial to researchers. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of IGC in the analyses of longitudinal data using SPSS. The general strategy for model building, testing, and …

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