Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of latent variables. Among the kinds of analysis it can perform are exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, latent class…
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Mplus version 5.2 was used for these examples. 1.0 Entering free format data Data files for Mplus are just plain ASCII text files. "Free format", where the values for each…
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Mplus version 5.2 was used for these examples. 1.0 Descriptive statistics in Mplus To indicate to Mplus that you want basic descriptive statistics (means, variances, covariances and correlations), you need…
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What Statistical Analysis Should I Use? General FAQs R FAQs SAS FAQs SPSS FAQs Stata FAQs Mplus FAQs SUDAAN FAQs

  Stata version 8.x and SE and Stata version 9 and SE SAS version 8.x SPSS versions 11.x, 12.x and 13 max width of input raw data file 32,765 (version…
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We use the following little data set to illustrate how to count up the number of missing values for character variables with SPSS, SAS and Stata. id female race ses…
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Excel is not a statistical package.  Despite this, Excel is likely the software most often used for data analysis.  So, even though we do not advocate its use, here are…
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Excel is not a statistical package; however, Excel is often the software of choice for inputting data. So, even though we do not advocate its use for statistical analysis, here are…
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FAQ: What are pseudo R-squareds?   As a starting point, recall that a non-pseudo R-squared is a statistic generated in ordinary least squares (OLS) regression that is often used as…
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We get requests from time to time as to the correct citation for one of our web pages or one of our programs. Please note that you may have to…
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