A latent class model for obesity

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• 作者：William Greene^a ; ^{wgreene@stern.nyu.edu" class="auth_mail} ; Mark N. Harris^b ; ^{mark.harris@curtin.edu" class="auth_mail} ; Bruce Hollingsworth^c ; ^{b.hollingsworth@lancaster.ac.uk" class="auth_mail} ; Pushkar Maitra^d ; ^{pushkar.maitra@monash.edu" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：Latent class ; Class membership ; Obesity
• 刊名：Economics Letters
• 出版年：April, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：123
• 期：1
• 页码：1-5
• 全文大小：342 K

文摘

We extend the discrete data latent class literature by explicitly defining a latent variable for class membership as a function of both observables and unobservables, thereby allowing the equations defining the class membership and observed outcomes to be correlated. The procedure is then applied to modelling observed obesity outcomes, based upon an underlying ordered probit equation.