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Development of an Individual-Tree Basal Area Increment Model using a Linear Mixed-Effects Approach
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Latent class and finite mixture models for multilevel data sets.

Jeroen K Vermunt1

  • 1Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. j.k.vermunt@uvt.nl

Statistical Methods in Medical Research
|September 15, 2007
PubMed
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This study extends latent class (LC) analysis for hierarchical data. It introduces a novel multilevel latent class model with discrete random effects for clustering higher-level units.

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Published on: July 3, 2020

Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Multilevel Modeling
  • Latent Class Analysis

Background:

  • Hierarchical data structures are common in various scientific fields.
  • Traditional latent class models do not adequately account for dependencies within higher-level units.
  • Multilevel analysis typically handles these dependencies by allowing model parameters to vary randomly across higher-level observations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend latent class (LC) and finite mixture models for analyzing hierarchical data.
  • To introduce a multilevel LC model incorporating discrete random effects for clustering higher-level units.
  • To provide methods for maximum likelihood estimation and software implementation.

Main Methods:

  • Extension of latent class and finite mixture models.
  • Incorporation of random effects at the group and subject levels.
  • Development of an adapted expectation-maximization algorithm for estimation.
  • Application of the model to three empirical examples.

Main Results:

  • A novel multilevel latent class model with discrete random effects is presented.
  • This model allows for mixture distributions at both group and subject levels.
  • The proposed methods are demonstrated to be applicable using generally available software.

Conclusions:

  • The developed multilevel latent class model effectively analyzes hierarchical data with dependencies.
  • The discrete random effects variant offers a powerful approach for clustering higher-level units.
  • The provided estimation methods and software setups facilitate practical application of the model.