Growth mixture models in longitudinal research

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 415-434

  Reinecke, Jost ^a   Seddig, Daniel ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Growth mixture modeling; Heterogeneity; Latent class growth analysis; Panel data; Zero inflated negative binomial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355146455     PISSN: 18638171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-011-0171-4     Document Type: Article

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