Classes in the balance: Latent class analysis and the balance scale task

Developmental Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-149

  Boom, Jan ^a   ter Laak, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balance scale task; Cognitive development; Digit span; Latent class analysis; Logistic regression; Overlapping waves model; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847148050     PISSN: 02732297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2006.06.001     Document Type: Review

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