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Latent Class Cluster Analysis

JKJeroen K. VermuntJMJay Magidson

Tilburg University · Statistical Research (United States) · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Kaufman and Rousseeuw (1990) define cluster analysis as the classification of similar objects into groups, where the number of groups, as well as their forms are unknown. The “form of a group ” refers to the parameters of cluster; that is, to its cluster-specific means, variances, and covariances that also have a geometrical interpretation. A similar definition is given by Everitt

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  • Latent class model
  • Class (philosophy)
  • Cluster (spacecraft)
  • Cluster analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Similarity (geometry)
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • A priori and a posteriori
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