Breaking bad: Two decades of life-course data analysis in criminology, developmental psychology, and beyond

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 301-332

  Erosheva, Elena A ^a   Matsueda, Ross L ^a   Telesca, Donatello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Group based modeling; Growth curve mixture modeling; Latent variables; Longitudinal data; Unimodal curve registration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906859103     PISSN: 23268298     EISSN: 2326831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115701     Document Type: Article

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