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Confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory factor analysis; Factor analysis; Factor mixture modeling; Finite mixture models; Growth mixture modeling; Item response theory; Latent class analysis; Latent profile analysis; Mixture modeling; Structural equation mixture modeling; Structural equation modeling
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Latent variable modeling refers to a varied group of statistical procedures that use one or more unobserved (latent) variables to explain and explore relationships between a larger set of observed variables. There are many different types of analyses that fall under this general heading, but they can be generally grouped into four categories: models that assume one or more latent dimensions (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), one or more latent categories (latent class analysis, latent profile analysis), both latent categories and dimensions (factor mixture modeling), and structural models that enable us to examine relationships between latent variables....
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Georgiades, S., Frazier, T., Duku, E. (2018). Latent Variable Modeling. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_1928-3
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