Table 2.

Statistical methods for assessing growth and the software that can estimate these models.

Method		SPSS: AMOS v. 23	SAS PROC CALIS v. 9.4	STATA v. 14	Mplus v. 7.4	EQS v. 6.3	R: Lavaan** v. 0.5-20
Latent Growth Curve Model		X	X	X	X	X	X
Latent Growth Mixture Model		X	X	X	X
Data Types
	Continuous	X	X	X	X	X	X
	Binary	X	X		X	X	X
	Ordered-Categorical	X	X		X	X	X
	Unordered-Categorical				X
	Count			X	X		X
Estimator
	ML/MLR	X	X	X	X	X	X
	WLS/WLSM/WLSMV/ADF		X	X	X		X
	Bayesian	X	X	X	X		X
Missing Data
	Full-Information Maximum Likelihood	X		X	X	X	X
	Multiple Imputation	X	X	X	X	X
Price of Program (In USD)*
	Annual Academic License	811	9,200	445	175	NA	Free
	Perpetual Academic License	1840	NA	895	1095	595	Free

^*All prices are for the full versions of each program as of June 2016. In some instances, removing some features can reduce the cost of the program.

^**R package Blavaan is a Bayesian extension of the R package Lavaan.