Latent class and latent transition analysis with applications in the social behavioral, and health sciences /
"On a daily basis, researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences collect information and fit statistical models to the gathered empirical data with the goal of making significant advances in these fields. In many cases, it can be useful to identify latent, or unobserved, subgroups...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Wiley series in probability and statistics
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470567333 |
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"On a daily basis, researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences collect information and fit statistical models to the gathered empirical data with the goal of making significant advances in these fields. In many cases, it can be useful to identify latent, or unobserved, subgroups in a population, where individuals' subgroup membership is inferred from their responses on a set of observed variables. Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis provides a comprehensive and unified introduction to this topic through one-of-a-kind, step-by-step presentations and coverage of theoretical, technical, and practical issues in categorical latent variable modeling for both cross-sectional and longitudinal data. Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis is an excellent book for courses on categorical data analysis and latent variable models at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the social, behavioral, and health sciences who conduct latent class and latent transition analysis in their everyday work"--Provided by publisher. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 285 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9780470567326 (electronic bk.) 0470567325 (electronic bk.) 9780470567333 0470567333 |
Index Number: | QA278 |
CLC: | O212.4 |
Contents: | pt. I. Fundamentals -- 1. General Introduction -- 2. latent class model -- 3. relation between the latent variable and its indicators -- 4. Parameter estimation and model selection -- pt. II. Advanced LCA -- 5. Multiple-group LCA -- 6. LCA with Covariates -- pt. III. Latent Class Models for Longitudinal Data -- 7. RMLCA and LTA -- 8. Multiple-Group LTA and LTA with Covariates. |