Evaluating academic outcomes of Head Start: An application of general growth mixture modeling

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-254

  Kreisman, Michele Booth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Application; General growth mixture; Head Start

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037821798     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2006(03)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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