Growth mixture modeling: Identifying and predicting unobserved subpopulations with longitudinal data

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-656

  Wang, Mo ^a   Bodner, Todd E ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth curves; Growth mixture modeling; Longitudinal data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548536809     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106289397     Document Type: Article

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