Modeling Uncertainty in Latent Class Membership: A Case Study in Criminology

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 447, 1999, Pages 766-776

  Roeder, Kathryn ^a   Lynch, Kevin G ^b   Nagin, Daniel S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification error; Latent class analysis; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542742695     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10474179     Document Type: Article

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