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latent class models  

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  • Many quantities of interest in sociology, psychology, public health, and medicine are unobservable but well-conceived characteristics such as attitudes, temperament, psychological diagnoses, and health behaviors. Such constructs can be measured indirectly by using multiple items as indicators of the unobservable characteristics. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Latent Class Models]

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