Reconsidering Multilevel Latent Class Models: Can Level-2 Latent Classes Affect Item Response Probabilities?

AbstractMultilevel latent class analysis (MLCA) has been increasingly used to investigate unobserved population heterogeneity while taking into account data dependency. Nonparametric MLCA has gaine...

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