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Bayesian Latent Class Analysis

Bayesian latent class analysis extends classical LCA by placing prior distributions on all model parameters and using posterior inference — typically via MCMC — to classify individuals into unobserved categorical groups, quantify uncertainty around class membership, and select the number of classes in a principled, probabilistic way.

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Bayesian Latent Class Analysis
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • Dunson, D. B. & Xing, C. (2009). Nonparametric Bayes modeling of multivariate categorical data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104(487), 1042–1051. · DOI 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08439
  • White, A. & Murphy, T. B. (2016). BayesLCA: An R package for Bayesian latent class analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 61(13), 1–28. · DOI 10.18637/jss.v061.i13
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