Socialization in Open Source Software Projects: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 208-238

  Qureshi, Israr ^a   Fang, Yulin ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

latent class analysis; latent class growth models; latent growth models; longitudinal data analysis; quantitative: structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650136904     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428110375002     Document Type: Article

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