Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Model Comparison for Mixtures of Structural Equation Models with Ignorable Missing Data

Journal of Classification

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-255

  Lee, Sik Yum ^a   Song, Xin Yuan ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BIC; Gibbs sampler; MAR missing data; MCEM algorithm; Mixture; Path sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742323824     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-003-0013-5     Document Type: Review

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