Latent class analysis of response inconsistencies across modes of data collection

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1017-1027

  Yan, Ting ^a   Kreuter, Frauke ^b   Tourangeau, Roger ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

ACASI; CAPI; False negative; False positive; Latent class analysis; Mode comparison; NSFG

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863088564     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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