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Extending Latent Class Solutions to Other Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

W. A. Gibson
W. A. Gibson*
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Department of Army†
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Abstract

A procedure is derived for estimating the latent parameters of items not initially included in a latent class solution, on the assumption that the relations between those additional items and the original ones are accounted for by the same latent structure. A chi-square test is proposed for evaluating the relatedness of the additional items to the latent structure. The extension is generalized to associate continuous outside variables with the original solution, and this is accompanied by the suggestion that a simple analysis of variance be used to assess the results. Finally, this latent structure extension is compared with the Dwyer extension of factor analysis.

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Psychometrika , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1962, pp. 73 - 81
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Copyright © 1962 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

I am grateful to J. J. Mellinger for clarifying discussions of the statistical portions of this paper.

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Opinions expressed herein are the author's, not the Army's.

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