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| Yu Bi posted on Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 3:27 pm
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I ran a LPA to explore the latent classes of risk factors of child depression. LPA result indicated a five class solution. However, when I try to look at the characters of each class, I encountered a difficulty. Results showed
ODEL RESULTS
Two-Tailed
Estimate S.E. Est./S.E. P-Value
Latent Class 1
Means
Y3HOME -6.411 1.160 -5.529 0.000
Y3NCTOT -6.888 1.008 -6.833 0.000
Y3CESD -1.221 1.193 -1.024 0.306
Y3PSI -2.245 2.649 -0.848 0.397
Y3EXT -1.408 1.423 -0.990 0.322
I am very confused about this result because none of my class indicator variables contains negative value. Thus, it is very confusing that the estimate of means of those variables are negative. Could anyone tell me what is going on? In addition, I noticed that the results also provide "STANDARDIZED MODEL RESULTS" which also contains negative values. Should I report the standardized results or not? Thanks very much! |
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| Please send your output to Support. |
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| Yu Bi posted on Sunday, November 17, 2013 - 11:09 am
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| Hello Dr. Muthen,the output is too large to post here, can I send it to you by email? Thanks! |
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| Please send the output and your license number to support@statmodel.com. |
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Hi Dr. Muthen,
I am running into a similar problem. I am using counts as the indicator variables in an LPA, and results indicated a 3-class solution. However, when I look at the mean estimates for each class, many are negative, and I'm not sure how to interpret them, as none of the indicator variables are below 0. Can you explain this? In addition, I have one variable where the mean estimate was approaching an extreme value and was set at -15. From what I've read on previous threads, this indicates that this indicator variable is 0 for this class with a probability of 1. Is that correct? Thank you for your help! |
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The estimates are in the log metric. Use exp(estimate) to get to the count mean metric.
About the -15 value it sounds like you are using a zero-inflated model where you have a binary DV part. If you get -15 for it means you don't need the inflation part.
If this doesn't help, send output and license number to Support. |
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| This is very helpful, thank you for your quick reply! |
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