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a latent variable model that identifies unobserved subgroups of people from patterns on continuous indicators.

In statistics, latent profile analysis refers to a latent variable model that identifies unobserved subgroups of people from patterns on continuous indicators. This meaning comes from Gibson (1959) in Psychometrika.[1]

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References

Gibson, W. A. (1959). Three Multivariate Models: Factor Analysis, Latent Structure Analysis, and Latent Profile Analysis. Psychometrika, 24(3), 229-252. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289845

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