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Dear, In growht mixture models: can you use the t statistic to evaluate the significance of the variance of the latent slope ? I have encountered this in a couple of articles. Should one not use a mixture of chisquare distributions to test for this ? Thanks for your advice, |
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A mixture of chi-squares is the proper thing to use in principle. Many in the field seem to use the z scores as an approximation (which may not be good enough). |
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The test statistic is calculated as a difference in twice the log likelihood not ? Or can one use the square of the z-statistic ? Greetings, Liesbeth |
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Z squared is equal to two times the loglikelihood difference. Neither of them is a mixture of chi-squares. Both of them are used in practice. |
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Dear Linda, I was wondering. Suppose I have a GMM, with two classes. For both classes I specify a random intercept and slope. To test the significance of the variance of the slope growth factor I fit a model including a random slope and a model with a fixed slope. I compare the log likelihood values of these two models. Is this allowed ? Are this still nested models; what if the partitioning of the patients in two classes is different in these two models ? Thanks for your reaction, Liesbeth |
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Neither the z-test nor the LL difference test would be appropriate here although they are probably used in practice as an approximation. |
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