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Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

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CHAPTER 7EXAMPLE 7.9: LCA WITH CONTINUOUS LATENT CLASSINDICATORS USING AUTOMATIC STARTING VALUESWITH RANDOM STARTSTITLE:this is an example of a LCA withcontinuous latent class indicators usingautomatic starting values with randomstartsDATA: FILE IS ex7.9.dat;VARIABLE: NAMES ARE y1-y4;CLASSES = c (2);ANALYSIS: TYPE = MIXTURE;OUTPUT: TECH1 TECH8;y1cy2y3y4The difference between this example and Example 7.3 is that the latentclass indicators are continuous variables instead of binary variables.When there is no specification in the VARIABLE command regardingthe scale of the dependent variables, it is assumed that they arecontinuous. Latent class analysis with continuous latent class indicatorsis often referred to as latent profile analysis.158

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