Separating latent classes by information criteria

Journal of Classification

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-203

  Yang, Chih Chien ^a   Yang, Chih Chiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information criteria; Latent class analysis; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849008109     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-007-0010-1     Document Type: Article

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