Classification Accuracy and Parameter Estimation in Multilevel Contexts: A Study of Conditional Nonparametric Multilevel Latent Class Analysis
Abstract
The current research has two aims. First, to demonstrate the utility conditional nonparametric multilevel latent class analysis (NP-MLCA) for multi-site program evaluation using an empirical dataset. Second, to investigate how classification accuracy and parameter estimation of a conditional NP-MLCA are affected by six study factors: the quality of latent class indicators, the number of latent class indicators, level-1 covariate effects, cross-level covariate effects, the number of level-2 units, and the size of level-2 units. A total of 96 conditions was examined using a simulation study. The resulting classification accuracy rates, the power and type-I error of cross-level covariate effects and contextual effects suggest that the nonparametric multilevel latent class model can be applied broadly in multilevel contexts.
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@article{arxiv.2010.15368,
title = {Classification Accuracy and Parameter Estimation in Multilevel Contexts: A Study of Conditional Nonparametric Multilevel Latent Class Analysis},
author = {Chi Chang and Kimberly Kelly and M. Lee Van Horn and Richard T. Houang and Joseph Gardiner and Laurie Van Egeren and Heng-Chieh Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15368},
year = {2020}
}
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40 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables