Applied Latent Class Analysis by Allan L. McCutcheon, Jacques A. Hagenaars

Applied Latent Class Analysis



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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521594510, 9780521594516
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The study used latent class analysis to associate child maltreatment and behavioral disorder. What predicts relapse: Prospective testing of antecedent models. Latent Class Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social. Applying latent class analysis to this data, six classes were identified as clinically interpretable and relevant subgroups of prescription opioid abusers. An alternative is to use the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm [26], which is also a maximum likelihood approach but ideally suited to problems comprising latent class variables, which is exactly what we have here as the true disease status of each observation is only latently While the DIC is very commonly used in Bayesian analyses, and is straightforward to estimate, it is not without its critics and its reliability in some situations is an active area of statistical research (e.g. If single binary questions are used, then belief in reincarnation is more often reported than if a forced-choice question is used which offers respondents alternatives to belief in reincarnation (e.g. The analysis of residuals in cross-classified tables. The researchers then applied latent class growth analysis to determine the smoking trajectory for the students, measuring how smoking behaviors changed over time. In contrast, two studies using multiple group latent class analysis (i.e. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify distinct patterns of known risk factors for suicide among the decedents and to classify these decedents by these patterns. Applied Quantitative Analysis in Education and the Social Sciences. To determine the underlying causes that were more likely to lead to PMV, we applied LCA to group separate co-morbidity diagnoses into no more than 10 clusters of in-patients who had undergone PMV. Latent Class Scaling Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences).