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tidyLPA - Easily Carry Out Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) Using Open-Source or Commercial Software

Easily carry out latent profile analysis ("LPA"), determine the correct number of classes based on best practices, and tabulate and plot the results. Provides functionality to estimate commonly-specified models with free means, variances, and covariances for each profile. Follows a tidy approach, in that output is in the form of a data frame that can subsequently be computed on. Models can be estimated using the free open source 'R' packages 'Mclust' and 'OpenMx', or using the commercial program 'MPlus', via the 'MplusAutomation' package.

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konfound - Quantify the Robustness of Causal Inferences

Statistical methods that quantify the conditions necessary to alter inferences, also known as sensitivity analysis, are becoming increasingly important to a variety of quantitative sciences. A series of recent works, including Frank (2000) <doi:10.1177/0049124100029002001> and Frank et al. (2013) <doi:10.3102/0162373713493129> extend previous sensitivity analyses by considering the characteristics of omitted variables or unobserved cases that would change an inference if such variables or cases were observed. These analyses generate statements such as "an omitted variable would have to be correlated at xx with the predictor of interest (e.g., the treatment) and outcome to invalidate an inference of a treatment effect". Or "one would have to replace pp percent of the observed data with nor which the treatment had no effect to invalidate the inference". We implement these recent developments of sensitivity analysis and provide modules to calculate these two robustness indices and generate such statements in R. In particular, the functions konfound(), pkonfound() and mkonfound() allow users to calculate the robustness of inferences for a user's own model, a single published study and multiple studies respectively.

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prcr - Person-Centered Analysis

Provides an easy-to-use yet adaptable set of tools to conduct person-center analysis using a two-step clustering procedure. As described in Bergman and El-Khouri (1999) <DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1521-4036(199910)41:6%3C753::AID-BIMJ753%3E3.0.CO;2-K>, hierarchical clustering is performed to determine the initial partition for the subsequent k-means clustering procedure.

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