Conditional dependence diagnostic in the latent class model: A simulation study

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1407-1412

  Subtil, Ana ^a   de Oliveira, M Rosário ^a   Gonçalves, Luzia ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conditional dependence; Correlation residual plot; Diagnostic test; Latent class model; Log odds ratio check

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860222504     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.03.030     Document Type: Article

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