Concept information
Preferred term
latent class analysis
Definition
- Latent class analysis (LCA) is a method or technique for identifying unlabeled groups of individuals or cases in a data set based on multivariate categorical data. LCA is used in psychology, sociology, and many other areas of application to cluster, or partition, individuals into underlying groups. [Source: Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics; Latent Class Analysis]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/latent_class_analysis
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