Bill,

Here are links to .pdfs for the following 2 articles:

http://www.statisticalinnovations.com/articles/lcclurev.pdf

and  http://www.statisticalinnovations.com/articles/cjmr.pdf

The citations are the following:


Latent Class Cluster Analysis
(2002) J. A. Hagenaars and A. L. McCutcheon (eds.), Applied Latent Class
Analysis, 89-106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


 Latent Class Models for Clustering: a Comparison with K-means
(2002) Canadian Journal of Marketing Research, 20, 36-43.


The first shows the benefits of the latent class/ finite mixture approach,
the 2nd shows how it can be viewed as a probabilistic extension of K-Means.

I also attach a comparison of Latent GOLD vs. SPSS 2-step that was conducted
and published by an independent party.

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Subject: Handbook of Statistics


> Hi Everyone
>
> I have been invited to write a chapter on cluster analysis for an upcoming
> handbook of statistics.  Part of this chapter will focus on
> state-of-the-art methodology.
>
> I would welcome anyone's send me references to papers they think are
> ground-breaking and represent state-of-the-art cluster analysis
> methodology that should be part of this chapter.  These can be your own
> papers or other peoples papers and can come from any area including
> applied data analysis, stats, math, computer science, etc.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
> Bill
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