A latent class model for obesity

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A latent class model for obesity. / Greene, William; Harris, Mark N.; Hollingsworth, Bruce et al.

In: Economics Letters, Vol. 123, No. 1, 04.2014, p. 1-5.

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Greene, W, Harris, MN, Hollingsworth, B & Maitra, P 2014, 'A latent class model for obesity', Economics Letters, vol. 123, no. 1, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.004

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Greene, W., Harris, M. N., Hollingsworth, B., & Maitra, P. (2014). A latent class model for obesity. Economics Letters, 123(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.004

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Greene W, Harris MN, Hollingsworth B, Maitra P. A latent class model for obesity. Economics Letters. 2014 Apr;123(1):1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.004

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Greene, William ; Harris, Mark N. ; Hollingsworth, Bruce et al. / A latent class model for obesity. In: Economics Letters. 2014 ; Vol. 123, No. 1. pp. 1-5.

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abstract = "We extend the discrete data latent class literature by explicitly defining a latent variable for class membership as a function of both observables and unobservables, thereby allowing the equations defining the class membership and observed outcomes to be correlated. The procedure is then applied to modelling observed obesity outcomes, based upon an underlying ordered probit equation.",

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