Bethany Bray, outreach director of Penn State University’s Methodology Center, led the MAP Academy’s inaugural Emerging Scholars Series. The April 9-10 event included a keynote presentation, statistics workshop and an early career meeting for graduate students and postdocs.
In her keynote address, Bray provides a scientific summary of the three state-of-the-art approaches to latent class analysis (LCA) with distal outcomes. Each approach has been shown to work well under certain conditions in recently published simulation studies. However, there has not yet been a comprehensive overview of the approaches and their assumptions or an integration of “take-home messages” across simulation studies.
To lay the foundation for recent advances in LCA with distal outcomes, Bray:
- Describes three LCA approaches
- Clarifies the assumptions of each approach
- Integrates “take-home messages” of published simulation studies
- Summarizes available software options