Does Categories Have Latent Class Analysis capability?

[Art Kendall]

I am away from my books and files.  I seem to remember that Latent Class Analysis is also known by another name.

Does anyone recall what other names there are for Latent Class Analysis?

Has anyone done LCA-like analysis in SPSS and or AMOS?

Am I correct in remembering that LCA is clustering on categorical variables?

Art Kendall
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[Ryan]

Art,

I have heard people refer to latent class models as finite mixture
models and unobserved heterogeneity models.

It is possible to perform a latent class analysis in AMOS:

http://amosdevelopment.com/video/mixture/iriscluster/MixtureIrisCluster.html

Ryan

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Art Kendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I am away from my books and files.  I seem to remember that Latent Class
> Analysis is also known by another name.
>
> Does anyone recall what other names there are for Latent Class Analysis?
>
> Has anyone done LCA-like analysis in SPSS and or AMOS?
>
> Am I correct in remembering that LCA is clustering on categorical variables?
>
> Art Kendall
> Social Research Consultants
> ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message
> to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the
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