New approaches for examining associations with latent categorical variables: Applications to substance abuse and aggression

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 257-267

  Feingold, Alan ^a   Tiberio, Stacey S ^a   Capaldi, Deborah M ^a  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical analysis; Intimate partner violence; Latent class analysis; Structural equation modeling; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CATEGORICAL VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPOUSE ABUSE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84908391070     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031487     Document Type: Article

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