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Mixture models are a special type of quantitative model in which latent variables can be used to represent mixtures of subpopulations or classes where population membership is not known but inferred from the data.
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Marcoulides, G.A., Heck, R.H. (2013). Mixture Models in Education. In: Teo, T. (eds) Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-404-8_16
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