A Monte Carlo Investigation of the Likelihood Ratio Test for Number of Classes in Latent Class Analysis
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Multivariate Behavioral Research
- Vol. 23 (4) , 531-538
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327906mbr2304_9
Abstract
When using latent class analysis to explore multivariate categorical data an important question is -- how many classes are appropriate for this data? An obvious candidate to answer the question is the likelihood ratio test of c[SUB0] against c[SUB1] classes. In this paper this test is investigated by Monte Carlo methods; results confirm that the usually assumed null distribution is inappropriate.Keywords
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