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However, in the real world, some adolescents show relatively stable patterns of use, while others fluctuate substantially across different measurement waves. To capture these individual differences, the present study applies a Bayesian hierarchical linear modeling approach that allows between-person differences in within-person variability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study compared 16 model variants that crossed the following features: within-person error variance (fixed or random), lag effect (present or absent), linear and quadratic effects (random linear and quadratic terms included or excluded), and transformation (probit-transformed or untransformed).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The best-fitting model (DIC\u2009=\u2009\u22122,615; Deviance\u2009=\u2009\u22124,362) included a lag parameter, varying error terms, and random linear and quadratic effects for probit-transformed data. Notably, the average of the within-person standard deviation (${\\mu}_{\\sigma_j}$\u2009=\u20090.231) was almost twice that of the varying intercept (${\\sigma}_{\\beta_{0j}}$\u2009=\u20090.124), indicating substantial within-person variability in adolescent alcohol use across time.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Accounting for heterogeneous within-person variability and modeling alcohol use with a non-normal distribution significantly improved model-data fit and yielded extra insights into adolescents\u2019 alcohol use research. 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