Tutorial: Estimating LCVAR Models

This repository contains files for a fully reproducible tutorial on estimating Latent Class Vector Autoregressive (LCVAR) Models with the R-package ClusterVAR. We reanalyze open data by Grommisch et al. (2020), who helpfully shared their materials and data here on OSF.

The tutorial is in the following paper:

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This repository contains the following files/folders:

• Preprocess_Grommisch2020.R takes the data of Grommisch et al. in the state in which the author shared it on OSF and transforms it into a clean data frame containing only the relevant variables, which is saved as Data_Grommisch2020_clean.RDS into the folder Files
• LCVAR_Tutorial.R contains the code for the entire tutorial
• Helpers.R contains helper functions for the tutorial, mostly for plotting figures
• /Data is the folder containing the empirical data
• /Files is the folder where we save files such as the preprocessed data or LCVAR model objects
• /Figures is the folder in which we plot PDF figures