The LCAKB’s Code Repository is designed to be a “one-stop shop” to download sample code for latent class models. Many of the code examples come from projects and workshops conducted by Drs. Bethany Bray, John Dziak, and Stephanie Lanza when they were investigators at The Methodology Center at Penn State and supported in part by National Institute on Drug Abuse Center of Excellence awards from 1996-2021 (P50 DA039838 and P50 DA010075). In addition, many of the code examples come from the work of their collaborators and trainees, including those supported by the Prevention and Methodology Training Program, a National Institute on Drug Abuse Training Program (T32 DA017629).

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LCA: LCA with a grouping variable and without measurement variance

Description This code fits a 4-class, latent-class model for marijuana use and attitudes using 7 binary indicators of the latent class variable. It includes a grouping variable for year, and observations came from 3 different years. Measurement invariance across groups is not imposed resulting in an unrestricted latent class model with multiple groups. Software Downloads Latent Gold Mplus SAS Stata Exercise Exercise 4 This exercise asks you to add a grouping variable for year to a 4-class model for marijuana use and attitudes that uses 7 binary indicators of the latent class variable. It asks you to fit a model...

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