Longitudinal Data Analyses Using Linear Mixed Models in ...

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 1 Department of Applied Social Sciences and 2 Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ; 3 Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau, ; 4 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY.

test statistics might increase Type I errors under the condition of an unbalanced repeated-measures design[1,2,3]. Furthermore, the assumption of independence of observations intrinsic to GLM is not easily met when longitudinal data are under examination. As longitudinal observations may not be truly independent

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