Mplus VERSION 3.0
MUTHEN & MUTHEN
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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