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Hypothetical data to illustrate how longitudinal designs can reveal developmental trends that may remain obscured in cross-sectional data. The same data treated i) cross-sectional (left) ii) longitudinal (right). The model with the best fit for the data treated cross-sectionally is linear whereas the optimal fit model for the same data treated longitudinally is quadratic.
