Mplus VERSION 3.0
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03/30/2004 8:19 AM
INPUT INSTRUCTIONS
title: Study D
catstudyd.inp
montecarlo:
file is mcgrowth.dat;
names are y1-y4;
ngroups = 1;
nobs = 250;
nreps = 500;
seed = 598587;
categorical = y1-y4;
generate = y1-y4(3);
cutpoints = y1-y4(-.7 0 .7);
analysis:
type = meanstructure;
parameterization = theta;
model:
i by y1-y4@1;
s by y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
i*.5; s*.1; s with i*0;
[i*.5 s*-.5];
y1@.5 y2*.6 y3*.9 y4*1.4;
[y1$1*-.7] (1);
[y1$2@0];
[y1$3*.7] (2);
[y2$1*-.7] (1);
[y2$2@0];
[y2$3*.7] (2);
[y3$1*-.7] (1);
[y3$2@0];
[y3$3*.7] (2);
[y4$1*-.7] (1);
[y4$2@0];
[y4$3*.7] (2);
INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY
Study D
catstudyd.inp
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS
Number of groups 1
Number of observations 250
Number of replications
Requested 500
Completed 500
Value of seed 598587
Number of dependent variables 4
Number of independent variables 0
Number of continuous latent variables 2
Observed dependent variables
Binary and ordered categorical (ordinal)
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
Continuous latent variables
I S
Estimator WLSMV
Maximum number of iterations 1000
Convergence criterion 0.500D-04
Maximum number of steepest descent iterations 20
Parameterization THETA
Input data file
mcgrowth.dat
Input data format FREE
POPULATION VALUES FOR DATA GENERATION
0.5 0 -.5 -1.0
1.0
.5 1.2
.5 .7 1.8
.5 .8 1.1 2.8
SAMPLE STATISTICS FOR THE FIRST REPLICATION
SAMPLE STATISTICS
Means/Intercepts/Thresholds
Y1$1 Y1$2 Y1$3 Y2$1 Y2$2
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 -1.195 -0.607 0.274 -0.693 0.060
Means/Intercepts/Thresholds
Y2$3 Y3$1 Y3$2 Y3$3 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 0.643 -0.050 0.391 0.962 0.369
Means/Intercepts/Thresholds
Y4$2 Y4$3
________ ________
1 0.842 1.195
Covariances/Correlations/Residual Correlations
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
Y1
Y2 0.379
Y3 0.305 0.379
Y4 0.213 0.398 0.545
CHI-SQUARE P-VALUES
Expected Observed
0.990 0.996
0.980 0.986
0.950 0.954
0.900 0.898
0.800 0.780
0.700 0.660
0.500 0.448
0.300 0.268
0.200 0.162
0.100 0.094
0.050 0.052
0.020 0.018
0.010 0.014
MODEL RESULTS
ESTIMATES STANDARD ERRORS 95%
Average Std. Dev. Average Std. Dev. Cover
I BY
Y1 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
S BY
Y1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3 2.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4 3.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
S WITH
I -0.0140 0.0733 0.0726 0.0449 0.962
Means
I 0.5185 0.1016 0.1017 0.0366 0.972
S -0.5172 0.0863 0.0876 0.0385 0.962
Thresholds
Y1$1 -0.7222 0.1254 0.1225 0.0576 0.960
Y1$2 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y1$3 0.7248 0.1199 0.1176 0.0544 0.964
Y2$1 -0.7222 0.1254 0.1225 0.0576 0.960
Y2$2 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2$3 0.7248 0.1199 0.1176 0.0544 0.964
Y3$1 -0.7222 0.1254 0.1225 0.0576 0.960
Y3$2 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3$3 0.7248 0.1199 0.1176 0.0544 0.964
Y4$1 -0.7222 0.1254 0.1225 0.0576 0.960
Y4$2 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4$3 0.7248 0.1199 0.1176 0.0544 0.964
Variances
I 0.5878 0.3095 0.2957 0.2331 0.932
S 0.1199 0.0797 0.0770 0.0548 0.932
Residual Variances
Y1 0.5000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 0.6708 0.3224 0.2917 0.2442 0.902
Y3 1.0125 0.4282 0.4144 0.2895 0.946
Y4 1.4956 0.5624 0.5860 0.3338 0.934
TECHNICAL OUTPUT
PARAMETER SPECIFICATION
TAU
Y1$1 Y1$2 Y1$3 Y2$1 Y2$2
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 1 0 2 1 0
TAU
Y2$3 Y3$1 Y3$2 Y3$3 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 2 1 0 2 1
TAU
Y4$2 Y4$3
________ ________
1 0 2
NU
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0 0 0 0
LAMBDA
I S
________ ________
Y1 0 0
Y2 0 0
Y3 0 0
Y4 0 0
THETA
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
Y1 0
Y2 0 3
Y3 0 0 4
Y4 0 0 0 5
ALPHA
I S
________ ________
1 6 7
BETA
I S
________ ________
I 0 0
S 0 0
PSI
I S
________ ________
I 8
S 9 10
STARTING VALUES
TAU
Y1$1 Y1$2 Y1$3 Y2$1 Y2$2
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 -0.700 0.000 0.700 -0.700 0.000
TAU
Y2$3 Y3$1 Y3$2 Y3$3 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________ ________
1 0.700 -0.700 0.000 0.700 -0.700
TAU
Y4$2 Y4$3
________ ________
1 0.000 0.700
NU
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
LAMBDA
I S
________ ________
Y1 1.000 0.000
Y2 1.000 1.000
Y3 1.000 2.000
Y4 1.000 3.000
THETA
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
Y1 0.500
Y2 0.000 0.600
Y3 0.000 0.000 0.900
Y4 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.400
ALPHA
I S
________ ________
1 0.500 -0.500
BETA
I S
________ ________
I 0.000 0.000
S 0.000 0.000
PSI
I S
________ ________
I 0.500
S 0.000 0.100
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