Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences Latent Class and Discrete Latent Trait Models: Similarities and Differences
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Book
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0803974337
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9780803974333
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Publication Year
1996
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Pages
224
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The standard latent class model, which has been popular among social scientists as an instrument for data reduction, is also a flexible tool for analyzing structural relationships between categorical variables and can be seen as a natural extension of the log-linear model in order to take measurement error into account. Among behavioural scientists latent trait models have been proposed as the preferable psychometric tools for measuring abilities in such a way that characteristics of items and individuals could be studied separately. However, what are the similarities and differences between the latent class model and latent trait models? Through a careful examination of these issues, Ton Heinen explores topics such as: ho - from Amzon
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