Estimating the Association between Latent Class Membership and External Variables Using Bias-adjusted Three-step Approaches

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 272-311

  Bakk, Zsuzsa ^a   Tekle, Fetene B ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bias adjustment; covariates; distal outcomes; latent class analysis; multiple latent variables; three step approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993820490     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081175012470644     Document Type: Article

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