Causal Inference in Latent Class Analysis

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-383

  Lanza, Stephanie T ^a   Coffman, Donna L ^a   Xu, Shu ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

average causal effect; causal inference; latent class analysis; propensity scores

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CAUSAL EFFECT; CAUSAL INFERENCES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE;

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EID: 84880932582     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2013.797816     Document Type: Article

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