Robustness of stepwise latent class modeling with continuous distal outcomes

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-31

  Bakk, Zsuzsa ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Latent class analysis; Robustness; Stepwise approaches

Indexed keywords

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DATA APPLICATION; LATENT CLASS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; LATENT CLASS MODEL; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STEPWISE APPROACH; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 84928025178     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.955104     Document Type: Article

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