Likelihood inference for a class of latent Markov models under linear hypotheses on the transition probabilities

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-178

  Bartolucci, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

2 distribution; Boundary problem; Constrained statistical inference; EM algorithm; Item response theory; Latent class model; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644753140     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2006.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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