Latent Variable Model

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A Latent Variable Model is a statistical model that contains one or more latent variables.



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Manifest variables
Latent variables Continuous Categorical
Continuous Factor analysis Latent trait analysis
Categorical Latent profile analysis Latent class analysis
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_variable_model (continued).
    • Another name for latent trait analysis is item response theory (IRT). The most simple IRT model is the Rasch model. An important part of the latent profile analysis is the mixture model.

      In factor analysis and latent trait analysis the latent variables are treated as continuous normally distributed variables, and in latent profile analysis and latent class analysis as from a multinomial distribution. The manifest variables in factor analysis and latent profile analysis are continuous and in most cases, their conditional distribution given the latent variables is assumed to be normal. In latent trait analysis and latent class analysis, the manifest variables are discrete. These variables could be dichotomous, ordinal or nominal variables. Their conditional distributions are assumed to be binomial or multinomial.

      Because the distribution of a continuous latent variable can be approximated by a discrete distribution, the distinction between continuous and discrete variables turns out not to be fundamental at all. Therefore there may be a psychometrical latent variable, but not a psychological psychometric variable.

  1. David J. Bartholomew, Fiona Steel, Irini Moustaki, Jane I. Galbraith (2002), The Analysis and Interpretation of Multivariate Data for Social Scientists, Chapman & Hall/CRC, p. 145

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