Monday, January 25, 2010

Latent Class Analysis: Entropy

Entropy statistic (printed in the Mplus output for Latent Profile and Class analysis)

Entropy values greater than .80 indicate a good separation of the identified groups (Ramaswamy et al., 1993)


Ramaswamy, V., DeSarbo, W. S., Reibstein, D. J., & Robinson, W. T. (1993). An empirical pooling approach for estimating marketing mix elasticities with PIMS data. Marketing Science, 12(1), 103−124.

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