Zhang, Zhiyong; McArdle, John J.; Nesselroade, John R. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 39 (2012) 6, pp. 1241-1262
To emphasize growth rate analysis, we develop a general method to reparametrize growth curve models to analyze rates of growth for a variety of growth trajectories, such as quadratic and exponential growth. The resulting growth rate models are shown to be related to rotations of growth curves....
