How Well Does Growth Mixture Modeling Identify Heterogeneous Growth Trajectories? A Simulation Study Examining GMM's Performance Characteristics

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-226

  Peugh, James ^a   Fan, Xitao ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

entropy; enumeration indexes; growth mixture modeling; information criteria

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ENTROPY; MIXTURES; TRAJECTORIES;

DEGREE OF SEPARATION; ENUMERATION INDEXES; GROWTH TRAJECTORIES; HETEROGENEOUS GROWTH; INFORMATION CRITERION; MIXTURE MODEL; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION HETEROGENEITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84861591786     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2012.659618     Document Type: Article

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