Multilevel growth mixture models for classifying groups

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 532-565

  Palardy, Gregory J ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

latent class model; multilevel growth mixture model; school effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755178018     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998610376895     Document Type: Article

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