This seminar introduces you to Latent GOLD. Because this seminar is based on the free demo version of Latent GOLD you can try out all of the features shown in this seminar even if you do not own Latent GOLD. In fact, the movies shown below are based on their tutorials that introduce Latent GOLD from the Latent GOLD web site. We are very grateful to the kind folks at Statistical Innovations for giving us permission to create these movies.

Before you get started watching the movies, we encourage you to visit the web site for Latent GOLD and...
     1) Download the free demo version of Latent GOLD so you can follow the tutorials.
     2) Download (and optionally print) the .pdf files for the tutorials at the LatentGOLD site. These tutorials form the basis for the movies
     3) See any footnotes associated with the tutorial
     4) See the Recommended Readings for each tutorial and any additional Articles at the Statistical Innovations

• Tutorial 1 Using Latent GOLD to Estimate LC Cluster Models
  • Part 1a movie
  • Part 1b movie
  • Also see the footnotes for these movies for additional important comments.
  • Recommended Readings to accompany Tutorial 1 (courtesy of the Articles at the Statistical Innovations web site)
    • Nontechnical Introduction to Latent Class Models
      (2002) Statistical Innovations White Paper #1.
    • Factor Analysis with Categorical Indicators: A Comparison Between Traditional and Latent Class Approaches
      (2004) A. Van der Ark, M.A. Croon and K. Sijtsma (eds), New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Erlbaum.
    • Latent Class Models
      (2004) D.Kaplan (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences, Chapter 10, 175-198. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
• Tutorial 2: Using Latent GOLD 4.0 to Estimate DFactor Models
  • Part 2a movie
  • Part 2b movie
  • Recommended Readings to accompany Tutorial 2 (courtesy of the Articles at the Statistical Innovations web site)
    • Comparing Latent Class Factor Analysis with Traditional Factor Analysis for Datamining
      (2003) Chapter 22 in H. Bozdogan (Ed) Statistical Datamining & Knowledge Discovery, 373-383. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC. CRC Press.
    • Latent class factor and cluster models, bi-plots and related graphical displays
      (2001) Sociological Methodology, 31, 223-264
    • Graphical displays for latent class cluster and latent class factor models
      (2000) J. Blasius, J.Hox, E. de Leuw, and P. Schmith (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Logic and Methodology, TT-Publikations.
    • Bi-plots and related graphical displays based on latent class factor and cluster models.
      (2000) W. Jansen and J.G. Bethlehem (eds.), Proceedings in Computational Statistics 2000, 121-122. Statistics Netherlands. ISSN 0253-018X
• Tutorial 3: LC Regression with Repeated Measures (under construction)
• Tutorial 4: Profiling LC Segments using the CHAID Option (under construction)