Evaluation of the effects of the Aban Aya Youth Project in reducing violence among African American adolescent males using latent class growth mixture modeling techniques

Evaluation Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-148

  Segawa, Eisuke ^a   Ngwe, Job E ^b   Li, Yanhong ^c   Flay, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American youth; Growth mixture modeling; Latent class; Violence reduction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BAYES THEOREM; CHICAGO; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 15744392433     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X04271095     Document Type: Article

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