Parameter estimation in latent profile models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 371-388

  Dunmur, A P ^a   Titterington, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Incomplete data; Latent profile analysis; Mean field approximations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LATENT PROFILE ANALYSIS; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0032486004     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)00019-X     Document Type: Article

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