An Introduction to Latent Variable Mixture Modeling (Part 1): Overview and Cross-Sectional Latent Class and Latent Profile Analyses

S. Berlin, Kristoffer; A. Williams, Natalie; R. Parra, Gilbert

doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jst084

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An Introduction to Latent Variable Mixture Modeling (Part 1): Overview and Cross-Sectional Latent Class and Latent Profile Analyses

Published in Journal of Pediatric Psychology • Nov 25, 2013

Authors:

Kristoffer S. Berlin

Natalie A. Williams

Gilbert R. Parra

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Pediatric psychologists are often interested in finding patterns in heterogeneous cross-sectional data. Latent variable mixture modeling is an emerging person-centered statistical approach that models heterogeneity by classifying individuals into unobserved groupings (latent classes) with...

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Latent class model

Latent variable

Latent variable model

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