A mixture IRT analysis of risky youth behavior

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Finch, W Holmes ^a   Pierson, Eric E ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk youth; Item response theory; Latent class analysis; Mixture item response theory; Mixture modeling; Youth risk behavior survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867069143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00098     Document Type: Article

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