Growth Curve Analysis Workshop

logo

Overview

These are slides from a two-day Growth Curve Analysis (GCA) workshop given at Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology in Göttingen in March 2018. The purpose of the workshop was to provide a hands-on introduction to using GCA to analyze longitudinal or time course data, with a particular focus on eye-tracking data. The workshop was conducted in R (and RStudio) using the following packages:

Workshop Slides

Part 1Introduction (challenges of time course data, ggplot basics), GCA basics
Part 2Modeling nonlinear change, within-subject effects
Part 3Visualizing higher-order polynomial effects, contrast coding, multiple comparisons
Part 4Logistic GCA
Part 5Quantifying and analyzing individual differences
Exercise solutions