Dirichlet generalizations of latent-class models

Journal of Classification

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 315-353

  Potthoff, Richard F ^a   Manton, Kenneth G ^a   Woodbury, Max A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16 fold table; Beta distribution; Dirichlet distribution; Guttman scaling; Maximum likelihood estimation; Panel analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340197     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003570000024     Document Type: Article

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