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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 458-468Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0165025419881721
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Latent profile analysis; latent variable modeling; teaching paper
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The present guide provides a practical guide to conducting latent profile analysis (LPA) in the Mplus software system. This guide is intended for researchers familiar with some latent variable modeling but not LPA specifically. A general procedure for conducting LPA is provided in six steps: (a) data inspection, (b) iterative evaluation of models, (c) model fit and interpretability, (d) investigation of patterns of profiles in a retained model, (e) covariate analysis, and (f) presentation of results. A worked example is provided with syntax and results to exemplify the steps.
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