Latent class logistic regression: Application to marijuana use and attitudes among high school seniors

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 723-743

  Chung, Hwan ^a,d   Flaherty, Brian P ^b   Schafer, Joseph L ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Data augmentation; Finite mixture; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748792000     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00419.x     Document Type: Review

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