Estimate latent profiles using mclust — estimate_profiles

Estimates latent profiles (finite mixture models) using the open source package mclust.

estimate_profiles_mclust(df, n_profiles, model_numbers, select_vars, ...)

Arguments

df: data.frame with two or more columns with continuous variables
n_profiles: Numeric vector. The number of profiles (or mixture components) to be estimated. Each number in the vector corresponds to an analysis with that many mixture components.
model_numbers: Numeric vector. Numbers of the models to be estimated. See estimate_profiles for a description of the models available in tidyLPA.
select_vars: Character. Optional vector of variable names in df, to be used for model estimation. Defaults to NULL, which means all variables in df are used.
...: Parameters passed directly to Mclust. See the documentation of Mclust.

An object of class 'tidyLPA' and 'list'

Caspar J. van Lissa