Latent transition analysis: Inference and estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1834-1854

  Chung, Hwan ^a   Lanza, Stephanie T ^b   Loken, Eric ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Latent transition analysis; MCMC; Small samples

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUNKENNESS; HUMAN; LATENT TRANSITION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 42949083218     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3130     Document Type: Article

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