Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. June 12, 2012 Families, Fleet and the Fleet Marine Force, Force health and safety Comments Off on Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. Next week we kick-off National Menâs Health Week. Todayâs blog comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a teaser for next week.
Numeric variables. A numeric variable, also known as a quantitative variable, is one that can assume a number of real valuesâsuch as age or number of people in a household. However, not all variables described by numbers are considered numeric.
Analyzing Data: Latent Class and Other Mixture Models. Mixture models are measurement models that use observed variables as indicators of one or more nominal latent variables (i.e. categorical variables).One way to think about mixture models that one is attempting to identify subsets or classes of observations within the observed data.The latent variable (classes) is categorical, but the indicators may be either categorical or continuous.n other words, the estimated probability of a student in class 1 taking honors math is about .89. Above we estimated a specific case of a mixture model, a latent class analysis, in which all of the indicators are categorical, in this example the model contains both categorical and continuous indicators.