Hi,
I have been following the other post about latent class analysis using EasyMx https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/comment/reply/4282/7227 [6]. I still have some questions and concerns. My goal is to run a two component finite mixture model (aka Latent Profile analysis with two classes).
Is the optimization being done gradient descent or some other algorithm like EM algorithm. I would like to be using the EM algorithm.
If Easy MX is not using the EM Algorithm is there a way to use the EM algorithm with EasyMx? Or is there a way to set up a latent profile analysis using the EM Algorithm. Thank you for your help!