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Dear list, I have been comparing the outputs of two packages for latent class regression, namely 'flexmix', and 'mmlcr'. What I have noticed is that the flexmix package appears to come up with a much better fit than the mmlcr package (based on logLik, AIC, BIC, and visual inspection). Has anyone else observed such behaviour? Has anyone else been successful in using the mmlcr

I am trying to estimate a latent class multinomial logit regression with flexmix. I am not sure if I should do it as follows: m4<-flexmix(cbind(y,1-y)~x1+x2|id,model=FLXMRglm(family="binomial"),data=NPreg,k=2) , where id links each row with the corresponding respondent. Each respondent has 4 alternatives to chose from. y takes the value 1 only for the alternative chosen; x1 and

Hello list, Has anyone had any luck creating an M-step driver for negative binomial regression for use with package flexmix? I've had a look here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/flexmix/vignettes/flexmix-intro.pdf as well as poking around in the flexmix source, but I haven't had much luck getting anything to work. I can't figure out how to a) come up with an initial estimate

Hi everyone? Does anybody know how can I estimate a Latent class multinomial (or conditional) logit using R? I have tried flexmix, poLCA, and they do not seem to support this model. thanks in advance adan -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latent-class-multinomial-or-conditional-logit-using-R-tp4230083p4230083.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Dear R-users, I keep getting an ERROR saying " Error in model.matrix.default(formula, mframe) : model frame and formula mismatch in model.matrix() " when i fit poLCA with more than 63 variables. Below are the details. I am trying to do a Latent Class Analysis using poLCA. My data set contains binary scores of, for instance, 200 students on 100 items. These numbers could even be more

Dear Listers, My post might be somewhat OT. Currently, I am trying to use flexmix to build a finite mixture model. For instance, I am getting the prior probability and coefficients for each latent class from training data. Is there a way to get the posterior probablity and prediction of a new dataset? What I am thinking is to apply the prior prob and coefficient from training set to testing data

Dear R-help listers, I am a new convert to R. I am trying to use a r package to conduct latent class analysis as a triangulation check of my cluster analysis using the cluster package in R. I have about 30 cases and 6 indicators, some of which are binary indicators and others are ratio-level variables (percentages). I looked around for information in flexmix, lca, and poLCA, and couldn't find

Hi, I perform latent class analysis on a matrix of dichotomous variables to create an indicator of class/category membership for each observation. I would like to know whether there is a function that selects the best fit in terms of number of classes/categories. Currently, I am doing this with the lca() function of the e1071 package. This function requires me to specify the number of classes

As far as I know, there are 2 libraries for latent class regression, flexmix and mmlrc. Since I don't have experience with either one, can someone give me some advice which library is better? Thank you so much.

As an alternative to Latent GOLD, I'm wondering if anyone knows of and R package that can manage Latent Class Analysis with mixed variable types (continuous, ordinal, and nominal/binary). [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R-users, I would like to use the package flexmix to fit latent classes to a regression model. My data are repeated measurements of bernouilli variables so I can use the binomial family link to the glm function. The design is not balanced, meaning that for some individuals in my data set I have 10 measurements or more, for others I only have 5 or even less. My question is the following. Can

Dear R users, I would like to perform Latent Class Logit Models for the analysis of choice experiments in environmental valuation. This kind of analysis is usually performed with NLogit Software (http://www.limdep.com). I attach the results I usually obtain using NLogit and NLogit model specifications. For Random parameter models and Logit Models I usually perform my analysis with the package

I've been trying with no success to model mixtures of Gamma distributions using the package flexmix (see examples below). Can anyone help me get it to model better? Thanks very much. -Ben ## ## Please help me get flexmix to correctly model mixtures of ## Gamma distributions. See examples below. ## library('flexmix') ## ## Plot a histogram of dat and the Gamma mixture model given

What's the best approach to running latent class analysis with R? I've downloaded both randomLCA and poLCA packages, but I am interesting in running a standard LCA with individual records (not frequency table) as input data. Wen Gu John Jay College of Criminal Justice445 West 59 StreetNew York, NY 10029 wgu@gc.cuny.edu _________________________________________________________________

Greetings I'm a relatively new R user and I'm trying to build a latent class model. I've used the 'R Site Search' and it appears there's not much dialogue on these packages On mmlcr, I've gotten it working, but not sure if I'm using it correctly. On flexmix, I can only seem to get results for one class. I'm attaching my code below - if anyone

Hi, I am using the package "flexmix" and would like get some assistance. I am trying to run two equations jointly Y1=X1B+E1 Y2=X2G+E2 So that I have X and Y in a matrix format and would like to run the latent class model using flexmix. Though, my problem here is that Flexmix automatically generates intercepts. I have intercept for both of the equations that my X matrix looks like

Hello there, I would like to test the agreement amongst 6 raters for nominal data on a scale from 1-4, and conduct a latent class analysis in R. How should the data be formatted and what code should I use? Thank you very much Lisa Wang Princess Margaret Hospital Biostatistics tel:416 946 4501

_____ De : Pousset [mailto:maud.pousset@noos.fr] Envoyé : mardi 4 juillet 2006 18:38 À : 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch' Objet : Latent Class Analysis Hello everybody, I am working on latent class analysis and have already used the ‘R’ function « lca » (in the e1071 package). I ‘ve got interesting results but I can’t simply find out the methodology used by this routine : 1) What

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of my new package "ltm" (available from CRAN), for fitting Latent Trait Models (including the Rasch model) under the Item Response Theory approach. The latent trait model is the analogous of the factor analysis model for Bernoulli response data. "ltm" fits the linear one- and two-factor models but also allows for

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of my new package "ltm" (available from CRAN), for fitting Latent Trait Models (including the Rasch model) under the Item Response Theory approach. The latent trait model is the analogous of the factor analysis model for Bernoulli response data. "ltm" fits the linear one- and two-factor models but also allows for