Extracting Spurious Latent Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling With Nonnormal Errors

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 933-953

  Guerra Peña, Kiero ^a   Steinley, Douglas ^b  

^a Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra   (Dominican Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

fit index; growth mixture modeling; latent classes; likelihood ratio test; simulation study; spurious classes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992585779     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164416633735     Document Type: Article

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