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How efficient are German life sciences? Econometric evidence from a latent class stochastic output distance model.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
This article investigates the technical efficiency in German higher education while accounting for possible heterogeneity in the production technology.
Denitsa Angelova   +3 more
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Latent Trajectories of Subjective Well-Being: An Application of Latent Growth Curve and Latent Class Growth Modeling

open access: yesInternational Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
This study proposed a three-stage measurement model utilizing the Latent Growth Curve Modeling and Latent Class Growth Analysis. The measurement model was illustrated using repeated data collected through a four-week prospective study tracking the ...
Esra Sozer-Boz, Nilüfer Kahraman
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Chinese parents’ caregiving ability for children with haematological malignancies: A latent class analysis

open access: yesNursing Open, 2022
Aim The aim of this study was to identify unobserved subgroups of Chinese parents’ caregiving ability for children with haematological malignancies and examine the associations of the latent class membership with individual characteristics.
Jingting Wang   +10 more
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Growth trajectories in lipid profile and fasting blood sugar in prediabetic people over a 16- year follow-up and future risk of type2 diabetes mellitus: A latent growth modeling approach

open access: yesAlexandria Journal of Medicine, 2022
Introduction The current study aimed to investigate whether the pattern of changes in lipid profile and fasting blood sugar (FBS) can predict the future risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) incidence in prediabetic people.Methods In a prospective ...
Awat Feizi   +4 more
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Solving the 100 Swiss Francs Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sturmfels offered 100 Swiss Francs in 2005 to a conjecture, which deals with a special case of the maximum likelihood estimation for a latent class model.
B. Buchberger   +9 more
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Mixture Rasch Model with Main and Interaction Effects of Covariates on Latent Class Membership

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Covariateshave been used in mixture IRT models to help explain why examinees are classedinto different latent classes. Previous research has considered manifestvariables as covariates in a mixture Rasch analysis for prediction of groupmembership.
Tugba Karadavut   +2 more
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Multimethod Latent Class Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Correct and, hence, valid classifications of individuals are of high importance in the social sciences as these classifications are the basis for diagnoses and / or the assignment to a treatment.
Fridtjof W Nussbeck, Michael eEid
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Latent Class Analysis with Arbitrary-Distribution Responses

open access: yesEntropy
The latent class model has been proposed as a powerful tool in understanding human behavior for various fields such as social, psychological, behavioral, and biological sciences.
Huan Qing, Xiaofei Xu
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Cluster Individuals Based on Phenotype and Determine the Risk for Atrial Fibrillation in the PREVEND and Framingham Heart Study Populations.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
BackgroundRisk prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF) is of importance to improve the early diagnosis and treatment of AF. Latent class analysis takes into account the possible existence of classes of individuals each with shared risk factors, and maybe ...
Michiel Rienstra   +9 more
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Bourdieu, gli onnivori, i post-moderni e le pratiche culturali

open access: yesQuaderni di Sociologia, 2010
Both “highbrow omnivorousness” hypothesis and “postmodern” thesis claim that Bourdieu’s homology theory fails to predict the relationship between social position and lifestyle.
Marco Terraneo
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