Modelling change in cognitive understanding with finite mixtures

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 435-448

  Thomas, Hoben ^a   Hettmansperger, Thomas P ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; EM algorithm; Markov processes; Mixture distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035650003     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00246     Document Type: Article

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