Investigating the feasibility of using Mplus in the estimation of growth mixture models

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 484-513

  Li, Ming ^a   Harring, Jeffrey R ^a   Macready, George B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; EM algorithm; Growth mixture modeling; Local maximum solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930328670     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1398918600     Document Type: Article

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