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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How can I move my data from SPSS to Mplus? | Mplus FAQ
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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How does Mplus calculate the standardized coefficients based on a Poisson model? | Mplus FAQ
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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How does Mplus calculate the standardized coefficients based on a logistic regression? | Mplus FAQ
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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How does Mplus calculate standardized coefficients with categorical or count dependent variables? | Mplus FAQ
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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How can I run a growth model in wide form with unequally spaced time points (tscore)? | Mplus FAQ
This page was created using Mplus version 5.2, the output and/or syntax may be different for other versions of Mplus. Sometimes repeated measures data include measurements at unequal time points….
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Ordinary Least Squares Regression | Mplus Annotated Output
This page was created using Mplus 5.1. Below is an example of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression with footnotes explaining the output. To summarize the output, both predictors in this…
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Mplus Class Notes Modeling Longitudinal Data
Mplus version 5.2 was used for these examples. To illustrate longitudinal data analysis using Mplus, we will use an example data set from Chapter 5 of Hox’s Multilevel Analysis: Techniques…
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Mplus Class Notes Freeing, Constraining, and Testing Parameters
There are at least two reason a researcher might want to fix or free parameters. The first is that while the default settings in Mplus do a fairly good job…
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Mplus Class NotesConfirmatory Factor Analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a measurement model that estimates continuous latent variables based on observed indicator variables (also called manifest variables). The observed indicator variables may be either categorical…
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