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longitudinal study
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longitudinal study [‚län·jə‚tüd·ən·əl ′stəd·ē]
(psychology)
The study of a group of individuals at regular intervals over a relatively long period of time.


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The next stage in Dr Day's research involves conducting longitudinal studies into nursing morale.
The datasets for some longitudinal studies clearly show that cross-sectional analyses at different time points would have yielded very different results.
With my colleague Joydeep Roy, I've tried to develop more accurate graduation rates using data from the Census Bureau and from high-quality longitudinal studies that track the same students from earlier in their schooling until they graduate or drop out.
 
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