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Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research (2020, methodology): “Content decisions One aspect that should be considered is how well an additional profile can be discriminated from another that has already been retained (Berlin et al., 2014; Vermunt & Magidson, 2002).”
Practitioner’s Guide to Latent Class Analysis: Methodological Considerations and Common Pitfalls. (2020, methodology): “Multiple random starts should be used to demonstrate sufficient replication of the maximum likelihood (57).”