Applied Latent Class Analysis [Hardcover]

Applied Latent Class Analysis introduces several innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers.Applied Latent Class Analysis introduces several of these recent innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers. Many of the world's leading innovators in the field of latent class analysis have contributed essays to this volume, each presenting a key innovation to the basic LCM and illustrating how it can prove useful in situations typically encountered in actual research.Applied Latent Class Analysis introduces several of these recent innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers. Many of the world's leading innovators in the field of latent class analysis have contributed essays to this volume, each presenting a key innovation to the basic LCM and illustrating how it can prove useful in situations typically encountered in actual research.This study introduces several recent innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers. Many of the world's leading innovators in the field of latent class analysis have contributed essays to the volume, each presenting a key innovation to the basic LCM and illustrating how it can prove useful in situations typically encountered in actual research.Preface Jacques A. Hagenaars and Allan L. McCutcheon; Part I. Introduction: 1. Latent class analysis Leo A. Goodman; 2. Basic concepts and procedures in singe- and multiple-group latent class analysis Allan L. McCutcheon; Part II. Classification and Measurement: 3. Latent class cluster analysis Jeroen K. Vermunt and Jay Magidson; 4. Some examples of latent budget analysis and its extensions Peter G. M. van der Heijden, L. Andries van der Ark and Ab Mooijaart; 5. Ordering the classes Marcel Croon; 6. Comparison and choice Ulf Bockenholt; 7. Three-parameter linear logistic latent class analysis Anton K. Formann and Thomas Kohlmann; Part III. 8. Use of categorical and continuous covariates in latl|