A critique of cross-lagged correlation.
Psychological BulletinPublished 1 September 1980
David Rogosa
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Abstract
Comments that cross-lagged correlation (CLC) is not a useful procedure for the analysis of longitudinal panel data. In particular, the difference between CLCs is not a sound basis for causal inference. Demonstrations of the failure of CLC are based mainly on results for the 2-wave, 2-variable longit
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