Modeling Structure and Chance in Transitions: Mixed Latent Partial Markov-Chain Models

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-109

  Meiser, Thorsten ^a,b   Ohrt, Barbara ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental processes; Latent class analysis; Latent markov chain models; Longitudinal analysis; Mixture distribution models; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030311333     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986021002091     Document Type: Article

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