Detecting and correcting attrition bias in longitudinal family research.

Given that bias resulting from the attrition of respondents poses a threat to the internal and external validity of findings in longitudinal family research, the writers present methods for detecting and correcting attrition bias in such research. He discusses how external validity is threatened by...

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Published in:	Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 57; pp. 921 - 930
Main Authors:	Miller, Richard B., Wright, David W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell November 1995
Subjects:	Response rates Longitudinal method Test validity Social surveys Families > Research Response styles (Examinations)
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