Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications

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CRC Press, Apr 19, 2016 - Family & Relationships - 352 pages
This book explores the ways in which statistical models, methods, and research designs can be used to open new possibilities for APC analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs: age-by-time period tables of population rates or proportions, repeated cross-section sample surveys, and accelerated longitudinal panel studies. They show how the empirical application of the models to various problems leads to many fascinating findings on how outcome variables develop along the age, period, and cohort dimensions.
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Why Cohort Analysis?
7
3 APC Analysis of Data from Three Common Research Designs
15
4 Formalities of the AgePeriodCohort Analysis Conundrum and a Generalized Linear Mixed Models GLMM Framework
55
Model Identification and Estimation Using the Intrinsic Estimator
75
Empirical Applications
125
Hierarchical APCCrossClassified Random Effects Models HAPCCCREM Part I The Basics
191
Hierarchical APCCrossClassified Random Effects Models HAPCCCREM Part II Advanced Analyses
231
Hierarchical APCGrowth Curve Analysis of Prospective Cohort Data
285
10 Directions for Future Research and Conclusion
313
Index
323
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Yang Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and a faculty fellow in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Yang's research encompasses the areas of demography, medical sociology, cancer, and quantitative methodology. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the American Sociological Review, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University.

Kenneth C. Land is a John Franklin Crowell professor of sociology and faculty director of the Center for Population Health and Aging at Duke University. Dr. Land is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Sociological Research Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, and the American Society of Criminology. His research focuses on contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. He received a Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.

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