Chunk #20 — Three methods to decide between latent dimensionality and latent categories — Meehl’s taxometric procedures

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Does nature have joints worth carving? A discussion of taxometrics, model-based clustering and latent variable mixture modeling.

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The objective of Meehl’s procedures was to address the question of continuous versus categorical constructs in an empirical, hypothesis-based manner (e.g. Meehl, 1965, 1992).