Estimation of extended mixed models using latent classes and latent processes: The R package lcmm

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 78, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Proust Lima, Cécile ^a   Philipps, Viviane ^a   Liquet, Benoit ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curvilinearity; Dynamic prediction; Fortran 90; Growth mixture model; Joint model; Psychometric tests; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020429515     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v078.i02     Document Type: Article

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