Distinct trajectories of perinatal depression in Chinese women: application of latent growth mixture modelling [PDF]
AbstractBackgroundCurrent research on perinatal depression rarely pays attention to the continuity and volatility of depression symptoms over time, which is very important for the early prediction and prognostic evaluation of perinatal depression. This study investigated the trajectories of perinatal depression symptoms and aimed to explore the factors
Lan Hong +11 more
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Handgun carrying among youth in the United States [PDF]
Despite a wealth of research finding that adolescents who carry handguns are involved in risky behaviors, there has been little exploration into the heterogeneity of this behavior.
Boutwell, Brian B. +4 more
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Bayesian Inference for Growth Mixture Models with Latent Class Dependent Missing Data [PDF]
Growth mixture models (GMMs) with nonignorable missing data have drawn increasing attention in research communities but have not been fully studied. The goal of this article is to propose and to evaluate a Bayesian method to estimate the GMMs with latent class dependent missing data.
Zhenqiu Laura, Lu +2 more
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A Bayesian Latent Variable Mixture Model for Longitudinal Fetal Growth
SummaryFetal growth restriction is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality that could be reduced if high‐risk infants are identified early in pregnancy. We propose a Bayesian model for aggregating 18 longitudinal ultrasound measurements of fetal size and blood flow into three underlying, continuous latent factors.
Slaughter, James C. +2 more
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In recent decades, criminological theories have identified a set of vulnerabilities in potential victims that seek to explain their victimization. When it comes to explaining cybercrime victimization, however, the important role that addiction to the ...
Juan Herrero +3 more
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Predicting development of adolescent drinking behaviour from whole brain structure at 14 years of age [PDF]
Adolescence is a common time for initiation of alcohol use and development of alcohol use disorders. The present study investigates neuroanatomical predictors for trajectories of future alcohol use based on a novel voxel-wise whole-brain structural ...
Babor +29 more
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Behavioral risk profiles of homeschooled adolescents in the United States: a nationally representative examination of substance use related outcomes [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The homeschool population continues to grow in size and now accounts for 3.4% of all students in the United States. OBJECTIVE: Given the heterogeneous nature of the population, this study examines the relationship between different types of ...
Hodge, David R. +2 more
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Background and Hypothesis: Osteocapsular débridement is a surgical treatment for functionally limiting primary elbow osteoarthritis (PEOA). We hypothesized that postoperative improvement in range of motion (ROM) following elbow osteocapsular débridement ...
Farhan Ahmad, MD +5 more
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A Multiple-Indicator Latent Growth Mixture Model to Track Courses with Low-Quality Teaching [PDF]
This paper describes a multi-indicator latent growth mixture model built on the data collected by a large Italian university to track students’ satisfaction over time. The analysis of the data involves two steps: first, a pre-processing of data selects the items to be part of the synthetic indicator that measures students’ satisfaction; the second step
Marco Guerra +2 more
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Trajectories of unrealistic optimism in grade expectation: A latent growth mixture model
AbstractThis study examined the heterogeneity in temporal shifts of unrealistic optimism (UO) by analyzing students’ grade expectation throughout a semester. UO was defined as the gap between students’ estimated and current course grades, with a larger gap indicating higher UO. Final course grades were viewed as the outcome of UO.
J. Hannah Lee +4 more
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