Ordinal latent variable models and their application in the study of newly licensed teenage drivers

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

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-450

  Jackson, John C ^a   Albert, Paul S ^b   Zhang, Zhiwei ^b   Simons Morton, Bruce ^b  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Driving study; Latent class modelling; Monte Carlo expectation maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876137509     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2012.01065.x     Document Type: Article

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