Modeling Uncertainty in Latent Class Membership: A Case Study in Criminology

By Kathryn Roeder, K. Lynch, Dan Nagin. 1999

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A Bayesian model for repeated measures zero-inflated count data with application to outpatient psychiatric service use (2010, background): “Roeder et al. (1999), Dalrymple et al. (2003) and Min and Agresti (2005) have developed finite mixture zero-inflated models that allow for clustering of subjects based on their latent response trajectories.”
Non-attendance and dual processing of common-metric attributes in choice analysis: a latent class specification (2010, methodology): “Roeder et al. (1999), using this same formulation, denote zi the ‘risk factors.”
Taking Stock of Developmental Trajectories of Criminal Activity over the Life Course (2008, background): “…Nagin, & Roeder, 2001; Kreuter & Muthén 2006a,b; Land, McCall, & Nagin, 1996; Land & Nagin, 1996; Land, Nagin, & McCall, 2001, Loughran & Nagin, 2006; Nagin, 1999, 2005; Nagin & Land, 1993; Nagin & Tremblay, 2005a,b; Roeder et al., 1999; Sampson & Laub, 2005; Wang, Brown, & Bandeen-Roche, 2005).”
A latent class model for discrete choice analysis: contrasts with mixed logit (2003, methodology): “Roeder et al. (1999) suggest using the Bayesian Information Criterion BIC(model) = ln L + (model size) ln N N (7) With the parameter estimates of θq in hand, the prior estimates of the class probabilities are ˆ .iqH Using Bayes theorem, we can obtain a posterior estimate of the latent class…”
Non-attendance to attributes in environmental choice analysis: a latent class specification (2011, methodology): “Roeder et al. (1999), using this same formulation, denote zi the ‘risk factors’.”
Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches (2003, background): “19Statistical techniques do exist which allow the uncertainty caused by heterogeneity within the group to be taken into account (Roeder et al., 1999).”
Latent Class Analysis With Distal Outcomes: A Flexible Model-Based Approach (2013, background): “All of these approaches require the assumption of conditional independence between X and Z given C (Roeder et al., 1999).”