Checking Assumptions in Latent Class Regression Models via a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation Approach: An Application to Depression and Socio-Economic Status [PDF]
Latent class regression models are useful tools for assessing associations between covariates and latent variables. However, evaluation of key model assumptions cannot be performed using methods from standard regression models due to the unobserved ...
Eaton, William W. +4 more
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Estimating the Demand for Health Care with Panel Data: A Semiparametric Bayesian Approach [PDF]
This paper is concerned with the problem of estimating the demand for health care with panel data. A random effects model is specifed in a semiparametric Bayesian fashion using a Dirichlet process prior. This results in a very exible mixture distribution
Jochmann, M., Leon-Gonzalez, R.
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Class structure and income inequality in transitional China
Integrating Kornai’s concept of coordination mechanism and Weber’s types of domination, the author argues that, based on the different property rights embedded within the state power structure, bureaucratic and market coordination define class positions ...
Xin Liu
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A comparison of two-stage segmentation methods for choice-based conjoint data: a simulation study. [PDF]
Due to the increasing interest in market segmentation in modern marketing research, several methods for dealing with consumer heterogeneity and for revealing market segments have been described in the literature.
Crabbe, Marjolein +2 more
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Latent class analysis can identify unmeasured mutually exclusive categories (class membership) among participants for either observed categorical or continuous variables.
Kelly R. Evenson +3 more
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Generalized latent class modeling using gllamm [PDF]
gllamm can estimate both conventional and unconventional latent class models. Models are specified using discrete latent variables whose values determine the conditional response distributions for the classes. A new feature of gllamm is that latent class
Anders Skrondal +2 more
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Mental health difficulties and service use of incarcerated women: The influence of violence perpetration and victimization [PDF]
The study investigated the relationships between incarcerated women’s experiences with violence and their mental health with the goal of identifying avenues for more tailored, compassionate responses to their mental health difficulties during ...
Casey, Rachel C
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Background: Latent class analysis (LCA) can be used to identify subgroups of children with similar patterns of mental health symptoms and/or strengths. The method is becoming more commonly used in child mental health research, but there are reservations ...
Kimberly J. Petersen +2 more
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Trade-offs between Shopping Bags Made of Non-degradable Plastics and Other Materials, Using Latent Class Analysis: The Case of Tianjin, China [PDF]
white pollution, plastic bag ban, conjoint choice experiment, willingness to pay, latent class analysis, China, degradable plastics, cloth, paper, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Q1,
Chan-Halbrendt, Catherine +2 more
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Modelling charitable donations: A latent class panel approach [PDF]
We apply a latent class tobit framework to the analysis of charitable donations at the household level where the latent class aspect of the model splits households into two groups, which we subsequently interpret as "low" donators and "high" donators ...
Brown, S., Harris , M.N., Taylor, K.
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