On identifiability of certain latent class models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-218

  van Wieringen, Wessel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Latent class model; Mixed factorial moment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044465148     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.05.022     Document Type: Article

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