P1-440 Latent class analysis of student substance use

Comorbid substance use disorders in schizophrenia: a latent class approach.

Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder with a characteristic disease course and heterogeneous etiology. While substance use disorders and a family history of psychosis have individually been identified as risk factors for schizophrenia, it is less well understood if and how these factors are related. To address this deficiency, we examined the relationship between substance use disorde...

An application of Measurement error evaluation using latent class analysis

‎Latent class analysis (LCA) is a method of evaluating non sampling errors‎, ‎especially measurement error in categorical data‎. ‎Biemer (2011) introduced four latent class modeling approaches‎: ‎probability model parameterization‎, ‎log linear model‎, ‎modified path model‎, ‎and graphical model using path diagrams‎. ‎These models are interchangeable‎. ‎Latent class probability models express l...

The Use of Latent Class Analysis in Medical Diagnosis

The evaluation of medical signs, symptoms, and tests for the purposes of diagnosis is usually framed within the context of estimating the sensitivity and specificity of the indicator. Sensitivity is the probability that a person with the disease will be positive on the indicator; specificity is the probability that a person without the disease will be negative on the indicator. The estimation o...

Latent Class Cluster Analysis

Dynamic Latent Class Analysis

ISSN: 1070-5511 (Print) 1532-8007 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hsem20 Dynamic Latent Class Analysis Tihomir Asparouhov, Ellen L. Hamaker & Bengt Muthén To cite this article: Tihomir Asparouhov, Ellen L. Hamaker & Bengt Muthén (2017) Dynamic Latent Class Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 24:2, 257-269, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2016.125...