Structural equation models and mixture models with continuous nonnormal skewed distributions

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-19

  Asparouhov, Tihomir ^a   Muthén, Bengt ^a  

^a Muthén & Muthén ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Mixture models; Non normal distributions; Skew T distributions; Skewed latent variables

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; LATENT VARIABLE; MIXTURE MODEL; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; T DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84927945397     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.947375     Document Type: Article

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