Determining the number of components in mixture models for hierarchical data

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 241-249

  Lukočiene, Olga ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

AIC; BIC; ICOMP; Mixture components; Multilevel latent class analysis; Multilevel mixture model; Validation log likelihood

Indexed keywords

AIC; BIC; ICOMP; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; LOG LIKELIHOOD; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; MIXTURE MODEL;

DATA HANDLING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84879593343     PISSN: 14318814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01044-6-22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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