The impact of ignoring a level of nesting structure in multilevel growth mixture models: A monte carlo study

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 570-589

  Chen, Qi ^a   Kwok, Oi Man ^b   Luo, Wen ^c   Willson, Victor L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLUSTERED DATUM; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MISSPECIFIED MODELS; MIXTURE MODEL; SIMULATION STUDIES; STANDARD ERRORS; VARIANCE COMPONENTS;

VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

MIXTURES;

EID: 77958091565     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2010.510046     Document Type: Article

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