Advances in group-based trajectory modeling and an SAS procedure for estimating them

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 542-571

  Jones, Bobby L ^a   Nagin, Daniel S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental trajectories; Finite mixture models; Proc traj

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247124854     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124106292364     Document Type: Article

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