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Peer reviewedEveritt, B. S. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1984
Latent class analysis is formulated as a problem of estimating parameters in a finite mixture distribution. The EM algorithm is used to find the maximum likelihood estimates, and the case of categorical variables with more than two categories is considered. (Author)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematical Models, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
