Investigating subtypes of child development: A comparison of cluster analysis and latent class cluster analysis in typology creation

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 778-794

  DiStefano, Christine ^a   Kamphaus, R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Cluster analysis; Latent class cluster analysis; Latent profile analysis (LPA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748088516     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164405284033     Document Type: Article

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