"Detecting and Correcting Attrition Bias in Longitudinal Family Resear" by Rick B. Miller and David W. Wright
 

Detecting and Correcting Attrition Bias in Longitudinal Family Research

Keywords

attrition bias, external validity, Heckman's proce- dure, internal validity, longitudinal studi

Abstract

Bias due to the attrition of respondents poses a threat to the internal and external validity offind- ings in longitudinal family research. Differences in characteristics between two samples at initial and subsequent waves is a threat to external va- lidity, and differences in the relationships be- tween variables in the samples is a threat to inter- nal validity. Methods of detecting attrition bias are discussed, and Heckman's procedure to cor- rect attrition bias is presented. Data from the University of Southern California Longitudinal Study of Generations (N = 2,044) are used to il- lustra

Original Publication Citation

Miller, R.B., & Wright, D. (1995). Correction for attrition bias in longitudinal analyses. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 921-929.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1995-11

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/5369

Publisher

Journal of Marriage and Family

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Sociology

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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