A biomedical application of latent class models with random effects

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

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 603-616

  Hadgu, Alula ^a   Qu, Yinsheng ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Conditional independence; Latent class models; Random effects; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039986428     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00131     Document Type: Article

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