Latent class analysis: A method for capturing heterogeneity

Social Work Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-69

  Rosato, Nancy Scotto ^a   Baer, Judith C ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; Latent class analysis; Mixture modeling; Person centered analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866348739     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: 15456838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/svs006     Document Type: Article

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