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 Dipali Rinker posted on Friday, August 02, 2013 - 12:45 pm
Hello,
I am planning to conduct an LCA and LTA using a mix of binary, categorical, and continuous indicators. Do you have any recommendations regarding resources for how to specify the input, as well as how to interpret the output?
Thank you in advance.
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Friday, August 02, 2013 - 1:34 pm
See UG ex7.11 for syntax. The interpretation is in line with regression analysis with those types of outcomes. We describe such regressions in Topic 2 as well as some more in Topics 5 and 6 of our video-taped short courses from Baltimore and Berlin. I can't point to application papers I'm afraid - others?
 Dipali Rinker posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 12:56 pm
Hello, thank you for your response. I will look at those resources. Related to entering binary data, do the response options have to be 0's and 1's, or can they be 1's and 2's? Or can the response options for some of the variables be 0's and 1's while the response options for other variables be 1's and 2's?

Thank you again.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 2:14 pm
They can be 0/1 or 1/2 or a combination. They are change to 0/1 before analysis.
 Dipali Rinker posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 2:56 pm
Hello, thank you for your response. So they need to be changed to 0/1 before analysis, correct?
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 3:09 pm
You don't have to make any change to your data. The program changes to 0/1 internally.
 Dipali Rinker posted on Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - 3:31 pm
Ah, thank you!
 Dipali Rinker posted on Thursday, August 08, 2013 - 3:22 pm
Sorry, one more question -- I am assuming that in the "results in probability scale" output, category 1 represents the 0's and category 2 represents the 1's, right?
Thank you again.
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, August 08, 2013 - 3:56 pm
Right.
 Gizem Samdan posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2019 - 4:36 am
I have ordinal and continuous indicators to identify classes of an emotional climate. The indicators are for example numbers of positive comments(POS). Ordinal variables are for example relationship (B) with three categories. N=92.

I get warnings like:THE STANDARD ERRORS OF THE MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATES MAY NOT BE
TRUSTWORTHY FOR SOME PARAMETERS DUE TO A NON-POSITIVE DEFINITE FIRST-ORDER DERIVATIVE PRODUCT MATRIX. THIS MAY BE DUE TO THE STARTINGVALUES BUT MAY ALSO BE AN INDICATION OF MODEL NONIDENTIFICATION. THE
CONDITION NUMBER IS -0.725D-18. PROBLEM INVOLVING THE FOLLOWING PARAMETER:
Parameter 12, %CLASS#2%: [ NEGQ ]

Do I have to change something? Are there assumptions due to the distribution of the continuous variables? Would you say I should categorize the continuous Variables? I would not like to do that because of information loss.

data: file = Speechsamples.dat;
variable: names = ID IS B TV S EM W EOI POS POSQ NEG NEGQ ZKB ZKC;
auxiliary = ID;
usevariables = IS B W POS POSQ NEG NEGQ ZKB ZKC;
categorical = IS B W ZKB ZKC;
classes = class(2);

analysis: type = mixture;
starts = 500 50;
stiterations = 50;

Thank you for your answer!
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2019 - 5:29 pm
We need to see your full output to say - send to Support@statmodel.com along with your license number.
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