Commentary on Steinley and Brusco (2011): Recommendations and Cautions

Psychological Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-81

  McLachlan, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization algorithm; Mixtures of factor analyzers; Normal mixture models

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79952599395     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021141     Document Type: Note

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