Fulvia Pennoni

Latent Markov and growth mixture models: a comparison

2015 · BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca)

We compare two alternative approaches of modeling longitudinal data in order to find patterns of change according to the available covariates, accounting for the unobserved heterogeneity in the population of interest. We refer to the …

On a class of finite mixture models that includes hidden Markov models

2025 · Journal of Multivariate Analysis

In the context of longitudinal data, we introduce a class of finite mixture (FM) models that generalizes that of hidden Markov (HM) models, and derive conditions under which the two classes are equivalent. On the …