Unrestricted Mixture Models for Class Identification in Growth Mixture Modeling

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 557-584

  Liu, Min ^a   Hancock, Gregory R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

class identification; growth mixture models; model convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907166645     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164413519798     Document Type: Article

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