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Latent Class Analysis

Latent class analysis identifies unobserved subgroups — latent classes — within a population by finding patterns of responses across a set of categorical observed indicators. It is the categorical-variable counterpart of cluster analysis, but grounded in an explicit probabilistic model, and is widely used in social, health, and behavioral sciences to discover typologies in survey or diagnostic data.

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Latent Class Analysis
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • Goodman, L. A. (1974). Exploratory latent structure analysis using both identifiable and unidentifiable models. Biometrika, 61(2), 215–231. · DOI 10.1093/biomet/61.2.215
  • Lazarsfeld, P. F. & Henry, N. W. (1968). Latent Structure Analysis. Houghton Mifflin. · URL
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