Latent class profile analysis: An application to stage sequential processes in early onset drinking behaviours

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 689-712

  Chung, Hwan ^a   Anthony, James C ^b   Schafer, Joseph L ^c  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early onset drinker; Latent class analysis; Longitudinal data; Maximum likelihood; Stage sequential process; Under age drinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960018717     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00674.x     Document Type: Article

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