Below is the diagram of a simple structural equation model. The dependent variable is a latent variable acad with three observed indicators, math, science and socst. There are two additional observed variables, the…
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Let’s look at an example. This example is based on example 5.1 from the Mplus User’s Guide. (Note: the Mplus User’s Guide, as well as all files needed to run…
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In this simple example we have an observed dependent variable (y), predicted by latent variables (x1, x2 and x3). Each of the three latent variables is associated with a set of observed variables….
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This page was created using Mplus version 5.2, the output and/or syntax may be different for other versions of Mplus. Frequently, we wish to compare the structure of measurement models…
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In this simple example of a path model (i.e. all variables are observed) we have a single dependent variable (y), predicted by three independent or predictor variables (x1, x2 and x3). Assume that…
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Chi-square difference tests are frequently used to test differences between nested models in confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis and structural equation modeling. Nested models are two models (or more if…
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If you have been working on your data in SPSS, but need to move to Mplus to complete your analysis, you can prepare and save your data in a form…
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The following example shows the output in Mplus, as well as how to reproduce it using Stata. For this example we will use the same dataset we used for our…
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The following example shows the output in Mplus, as well as how to reproduce it using Stata. For this example we will use the same dataset we used for our…
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Mplus will compute standardized coefficients for models with categorical and count dependent variables. Because the variance (and hence the standard deviation) of categorical and count variables is not well defined,…
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