Classifying life course trajectories: A comparison of latent class and sequence analysis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 765-784

  Barban, Nicola ^a   Billari, Francesco C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categorical time series; Latent class analysis; Life course analysis; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867224652     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2012.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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