Belasco, Eric J.Farmer, M. C.Lipscomb, C.2015-04-152015-04-152012Belasco, E.J., M.C. Farmer, and C. Lipscomb. "Using a Finite Mixture Model of Heterogeneous Households to Delineate Housing Submarkets." Journal of Real Estate Research. Vol. 34, No. 4 (2012): 577-594.0896-5803https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/8977We use a finite mixture model to identify latent submarkets from household demographics that estimates a separate hedonic regression equation for each submarket. The method is a relatively robust empirical tool to extract submarkets from demographic information with far less effort than suspected. This method draws from latent class models to group observations in a straightforward data-driven manner. Additionally, the unique information about each submarket is easily derived and summarized. Results are also shown to more convincingly sort submarkets than a prior study in the same area that used more comprehensive data.Home economicsEconomicsArticle