A latent class model for obesity

William Henry Greene; Mark Norman Harris; Bruce Phillip Hollingsworth; Pushkar Maitra

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.004

A latent class model for obesity

William Henry Greene, Mark Norman Harris, Bruce Phillip Hollingsworth, Pushkar Maitra

Department of Economics

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1 - 5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	123
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.01.004
Publication status	Published - 2014

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