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Extracting Spurious Latent Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling With Nonnormal Errors

Extracting Spurious Latent Classes in Growth Mixture Modeling With Nonnormal Errors

Growth mixture modeling is generally used for two purposes: (1) to identify mixtures of normal subgroups and (2) to approximate oddly shaped distributions by a mixture of normal components. Often in applied research this methodology is applied to both of these situations indistinctly: using the same fit statistics and likelihood …