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LCA / LTA observed variables |
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Johan Claas posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2014 - 11:01 pm
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Dear community, for my thesis project I am just getting started with latent transition models. I have a fairly basic question, which I have not found explicitly answered yet on the internet. When I am fitting an LTA model there are different ways of incorporating observable variables. I would like to know what the difference is between using a variable as 1. (additional) manifest indicator directly in the LTA / LCA 2. covariate 3. grouping variable in multigroup LTA / LCA. I understand the modelling results (e.g. parameters estimated) will differ in each case but what is, qualitatively speaking, the difference? Johan |
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1 vs 2. Think of LCA. If you have say 2 covariates you don't specify them as uncorrelated given the latent class variable, but you do if they are indicators. With 1 covariate there is no difference. A grouping variable is like a covariate; in fact, in LCA with categorical outcomes you can do everything you can do with groups (Knownclass) also with covariates. |
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Thank you, that makes it a lot clearer. |
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