Trajectories of substance use disorders in youth: Identifying and predicting group memberships

Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-157

  Lee, Chih Yuan S ^a   Winters, Ken C ^a   Wall, Melanie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent class regression; Risk factors; Substance use disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951292450     PISSN: 1067828X     EISSN: 15470652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10678281003634975     Document Type: Article

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