Eliminating Bias in Classify-Analyze Approaches for Latent Class Analysis

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-11

  Bray, Bethany C ^a   Lanza, Stephanie T ^a   Tan, Xianming ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

classify analyze; latent class analysis; maximum probability assignment; posterior probabilities; pseudo class draws

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LIFE CYCLE;

CLASSIFY-ANALYZE; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT; PSEUDO-CLASS DRAWS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 84917699284     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.935265     Document Type: Article

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