Model based clustering of large data sets: Tracing the development of spelling ability

Psychometrika

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 481-498

  Hoijtink, Herbert ^a   Notenboom, Annelise ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian computational statistics; Data expunction; Developmental stages; Latent class analysis; Model based clustering; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344305155     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02295648     Document Type: Article

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