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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2013 Jun 17;28(1):257–267. doi: 10.1037/a0031487

Table 1.

Overview of One- and Three-Step Models for Examining Associations with Categorical Variables

Observed Dependent Variable Latent Dependent Variable
Observed Independent Variable Logistic Regression LCA with Covariates
Latent Independent Variable LCA with Distal Outcomes Categorical SEM

Note. LCA = latent class analysis; SEM = structural equation modeling.