Studying growth heterogeneity with multidimensional scaling profile analysis

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-356

  Ding, Cody S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth heterogeneity; Growth mixture modeling; MDS growth profile modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EPILEPSY; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RATING SCALE;

EID: 34347343817     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025407077756     Document Type: Article

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