Mixture distribution latent state-trait analysis: Basic ideas and applications

Psychological Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-104

  Courvoisier, Delphine S ^a   Eid, Michael ^b   Nussbeck, Fridtjof W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Latent state trait models; Metatrait; Mixture models; Variability; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 34247238892     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.12.1.80     Document Type: Article

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