Latent class analysis

This is a website containing some documents about latent class analysis.

It is intended to accompany the course “Latent Class Analysis”.

Slides:

• 00-Introduction

• 01-LPA-and-EM-basic

• 02-LCA-basic

• 03-Bayes-rule

• 04-EM-categorical

• 06-LCA-extensions

• 07-Distance-based-clustering-and-K-means

• 08-Gaussian-mixture-modeling-LPA

Further slides will be posted later.

Interesting links:

• Jeroen Vermunt’s latent class video playlist.

Amusing links:

• A newspaper article from 15 March 2023 in the Dutch national news (!) about latent class analysis: “You don’t get anywhere by stretching the term class so far”.