A zero- and K-inflated mixture model for health questionnaire data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1028-1043

  Finkelman, Matthew D ^a   Green, Jennifer Greif ^b   Gruber, Michael J ^c   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WHEELOCK COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduct disorder; Item response theory; Mixture model; Oppositional defiant disorder; WHO composite international diagnostic interview (CIDI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMORBIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; K INFLATED MIXTURE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY; ZERO INFLATED MIXTURE MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONDUCT DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79953737141     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4217     Document Type: Article

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