AUTHOR=Ryoo Ji Hoon , Wang Cixin , Swearer Susan M. , Hull Michael , Shi Dingjing TITLE=Longitudinal Model Building Using Latent Transition Analysis: An Example Using School Bullying Data JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00675 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00675 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Applications of latent transition analysis (LTA) have emerged since the early 1990s, with numerous scientific findings being published in many areas, including social and behavioral sciences, education, and public health. Although LTA is effective as a statistical analytic tool for a person-centered model using longitudinal data, model building in LTA has often been subjective and confusing for applied researchers. To fill this gap in the literature, we review the components of LTA, recommend a framework of fitting LTA, and summarize what acceptable model evaluation tools should be used in practice. The proposed framework of fitting LTA consists of six steps depicted in Figure