Latent class models for diary method data: Parameter estimation by local computations

Psychometrika

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-182

  Rijmen, Frank ^a   Vansteelandt, Kristof ^b   De Boeck, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UC SINT JOSEF Kortenberg

Author keywords

Graphical models; Hierarchical latent Markov model; Junction tree algorithm; Latent Markov model

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949124407     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-007-9001-8     Document Type: Article

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