Resources to help you learn and use Latent GOLD

• Seminars
  • Introduction to Latent GOLD with movies
  • Latent Class Regression Analysis movie (also download handouts) by Jeroen Vermunt from the SMABS 2004 Conference in Jena
• Learn More about Latent Gold (including how to get the demo version and your own copy of Latent GOLD).
• Note! Students can obtain Latent GOLD for $100 and Latent GOLD + SI-CHAID for $200. For more details Contact Michael Denisenko, the Sales & Marketing Manager at Statistical Innovations, at michael@statisticalinnovations.com .
• Latent GOLD is made by Statistical Innovations. See their web site for more information, including many downloadable articles

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PANMARK

PanMark is another excellent program for LCA. It features automatic generation of multiple start values and bootstrap methods to statistically compare models with different numbers of latent classes. Parameter estimate standard errors are supplied. PanMark also handles longitudinal latent class (latent Markov) models.

The authors are Frank van de Pol, Rolf Langeheine, and W. de Jong. Marketing is handled by ProGamma. and also by Assessment Systems Corporation.

Contact information:

Dr. Frank van de Pol
Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics
Depatment of Statistical Methods
P. O. Box 959
2270 Voorburg
THE NETHERLANDS

or Dr. Rolf Langeheine.

LEM

LEM, an outstanding program by Jeroen Vermunt, handles both unconstrained LCA and constrained LCA (including ordinal variable, local dependence, and discrete latent trait models), as well as loglinear, latent trait, and other categorical data modeling methods. It also checks model identifiability, and provides asymptotic standard errors for parameter estimates. Researchers interested in local dependence LCA models will appreciate the ease with which such models are handled by LEM. Parameter estimate standard errors are supplied. Link to download (free) the LEM program, manual, and examples.

Contact information:

Dr. Jeroen Vermunt
Department of Methodology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg
THE NETHERLANDS

Can we use LEM to do the MaxDIFF?