Chunk #44 — Comparison of the three methods — Comparisons with simulated data

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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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class. In addition to the ambivalent labeling of methods, the simulation studies differ greatly with respect to the data generation. As described earlier, characteristics of the data have a direct impact on the inference regarding categories and dimensions. To evaluate simulation study results it is therefore crucial to take into account the type of data-generating model, and the type of method or model that was used to analyze the simulated data.