The Impact of Inaccurate "Informative" Priors for Growth Parameters in Bayesian Growth Mixture Modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 239-252

  Depaoli, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; growth mixture modeling; inaccurate priors; informative priors

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; GROWTH PARAMETERS; INACCURATE PRIORS; INFORMATIVE NESS; INFORMATIVE PRIORS; MIXTURE MODEL; MODEL PARAMETERS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84898064791     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.882686     Document Type: Article

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