A Latent Transition Mixture Model Using the Three-Step Specification

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 439-454

  Nylund Gibson, Karen ^a   Grimm, Ryan ^a   Quirk, Matt ^a   Furlong, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

auxiliary variables; growth mixture modeling; latent class analysis; latent transition analysis; mixture modeling; three step method

Indexed keywords

SPECIFICATIONS;

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MIXTURE MODEL; THREE-STEP METHOD; TRANSITION ANALYSIS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84904319056     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.915375     Document Type: Article

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