Applied quantitative analysis in education and the social sciences / edited by Yaacov Petscher, Christopher Schatschneider, Donald L. Compton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Extending conditional means modeling: an introduction to quantile regression / Yaacov Petscher, Jessica A.R. Logan, and Chengfu Zhou -- Using dominance analysis to estimate predictor importance in multiple regression / Razia Azen -- I am ROC curves (and so can you)! / Christopher Schatschneider -- Multilevel modeling: practical examples to illustrate a special case of SEM / Lee Branum-Martin -- Linear and quadratic growth models for continuous and dichotomous outcomes / Ann A. O'Connell, Jessica A. R. Logan, Jill Pentimonti, and D. Betsy McCoach -- Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis / Rex Kline -- Factor analysis with categorical indicators: demonstration of item response theory / R.J. de Ayala -- Introduction to structural equation modeling / Richard Lomax -- Latent growth curve modeling using structural equation modeling / Ryan Bowles and Janelle J. Montroy -- Latent class/profile analysis / Karen Samuelsen and Katherine Raczynski -- n-level structural equation modeling / Paras Mehta.

The mission of this book is to expose the reader to advanced quantitative methods as it pertains to individual level analysis, multilevel analysis, item-level analysis, and covariance structure analysis. Each chapter is self-contained and follows a common format so that readers can run the analysis and correctly interpret the output for reporting.