Robustness of group-based models for longitudinal count data

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 147-170

  Weakliem, David L ^a   Wright, Bradley R Enter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent class models; Overdispersion; Robustness; Semiparametric mixed Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349303037     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124109339368     Document Type: Article

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