With contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field, this carefully edited collection provides a clear, comprehensive, and unified overview of recent developments in statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. Focusing on both theory and applications, it addresses challenges that arise in analyzing longitudinal data, emphasizes statistical models and methods likely to endure in the future, highlights connections between various research threads in the statistical literature, and contains numerous examples and case studies drawn from a range of disciplines. Data sets, software programs, and other material are available on the editors' website.
