Auxiliary Variables in Mixture Modeling: Three-Step Approaches Using Mplus

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 329-341

  Asparouhov, Tihomir ^a   Muthén, Bengt ^a  

^a Mplus ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

3 step estimation; distal outcomes; latent class predictors; mixture modeling; Mplus

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; DISTAL OUTCOMES; LATENT CLASS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MIXTURE MODEL; MPLUS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; TRANSITION ANALYSIS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84904300107     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.915181     Document Type: Article

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