Evaluation of structural equation mixture models: Parameter estimates and correct class assignment

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-192

  Tueller, Stephen ^a   Lubke, Gitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS ASSIGNMENTS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; LATENT CLASS MODEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; SIMULATION STUDIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXTURES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77951655116     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511003659318     Document Type: Article

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