Clustering Nominal Data with Equivalent Categories: a Simulation Study Comparing Restricted GROUPALS and Restricted Latent Class Analysis
Marian Hickendorff · Leiden Repository (Leiden University) · 2005
I would like to use this moment to thank to my supervisors.I thank Kees van Putten for starting this thesis up and for his continuing support during the process, which especially during the at times struggling start of this study was indispensable.I thank Willem Heiser for freeing up time for me in his sabbatical year and for the input of his impressive psychometric knowledge, without which this study would have been far less sophisticated.Finally, I thank Norman Verhelst for his unceasing enthusiasm,