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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023). Penalized structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2023.2263913.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023). Residual Structural Equation Models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30, 1-31. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2074422
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  • Kam, C. C. S. & Cheung, S.F. (2023). A constrained factor mixture model for detecting careless responses that is simple to implement. Organizational Research Methods. DOI: 10.1177/10944281231195298
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  • Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2023). Can cross-lagged panel modeling be relied on to establish cross-lagged effects? The case of contemporaneous and reciprocal effects. Forthcoming in Psychological Methods.
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  • Konold, T.R. & Sanders, E.A. (2023). The SEM reliability paradox in a Bayesian framework. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2023.2220915
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  • Sanders, E.A. & Konold, T.R. (2023). X matters too: How the blended slope problem manifests differently in unilevel vs. multilevel models. Methodology, 2023, Vol. 19(1), 1–23, DOI: 10.5964/meth.9925
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  • Seddig, D. (2023). Latent growth models for count outcomes: Specification, evaluation, and interpretation. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2023.2175684
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  • Gillet, N., Morin, A.J.S., & Blais, A.-R. (in press). A multilevel person-centered perspective on the role of job demands and resources for employees' job engagement and burnout profiles. Group & Organization Management. Early view. DOI: 10.1177/10596011221100893.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023). Multiple group alignment for exploratory and structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30(2), 169-191. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2127100
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  • Morin, A.J.S., Gillet, N., Blais, A.-R., Comeau, C., & Houle, S.A. (2023, In Press). A multilevel perspective on the role of job demands, job resources, and need satisfaction employees' outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103846.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023). Bayesian analysis using Mplus: Technical implementation. Technical Report. Version 4. February 13, 2023.
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  • Feingold, A. (2022). Regression equivalent effect sizes for latent growth modeling and associated null hypothesis significance tests. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2139702
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  • Nye, C. (2022). Reviewer Resources: Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Organizational Research Methods. DOI: 10.1177/10944281221120541
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  • Pieters, C., Pieters, R. & Lemmens, A. (2022). Six methods for latent moderation analysis in marketing research: A comparison and guidelines. Journal of Marketing Research, DOI: 10.1177/00222437221077266.
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  • Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2022). Latent transition analysis with random intercepts (RI-LTA). Psychological Methods, 27(1), 1–16. DOI: 10.1037/met0000370.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2022). Practical Aspects of Dynamic Structural Equation Models. Technical Report. Version 2. January 30, 2022.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2022). Multiple imputation with Mplus. Technical Report. Version 4, March 8, 2022.
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  • Asparouhov T, Muthén B. (2021). Robust Chi-Square in Extreme and Boundary Conditions: Comments on Jak et al. (2021). Psych, 3(3):542-551. DOI: 10.3390/psych3030035
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  • Braun, L., Göllner, R., Rieger, S., Trautwein, U. and Spengler, M. (2021). How state and trait versions of self-esteem and depressive symptoms affect their interplay: A longitudinal experimental investigation Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Process and Individual Differences, 120(1), 206-255, DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000295
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  • Billet, J., Meeusen, C. & Abts, K. (2021). The relationship between (sub)national identity, citizenship conceptions, and perceived ethnic threat in Flanders and Wallonia for the period 1995-2020: A measurement invariance testing strategy. Forthcoming in Frontiers in Political Science. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.676551
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021). Bayesian analysis of latent variable models using Mplus. Technical Report. Version 5. September 18, 2021.
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  • Shamsollah, A., Zyphur, M., & Ozkok, O. (2021). Long-run effects in dynamic systems: New tools for Cross-Lagged Panel Models. Organizational Research Methods. DOI: 10.1177/1094428121993228
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  • Raykov, T. & Marcoulides, G.A. (2021). On the pitfalls of estimating and using standardized reliability coefficients. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 81(4), 791-810. DOI: 10.1177/0013164420937345
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  • Hamaker, E.L., Asparouhov, T, & Muthén, B. (2021). Dynamic structural equation modeling as a combination of time series modeling, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. To be published as Chapter 31 in: The Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd edition); Rick H. Hoyle (Ed.); Publisher: Guilford Press.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021). Bayesian estimation of single and multilevel models with latent variable interactions, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:2, 314-328, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2020.1761808 (*NOTE: Scripts refer to section numbers from the Mplus Web Note 23 version of this paper that are not present in the current version.)
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  • McNeish, D. (2021). Specifying location-scale models for heterogeneous variances as multilevel SEMs. Organizational Research Methods, 24:3, 630-653. DOI: 10.1177/1094428120913083
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  • Morin, A.J.S., Blais, A.-R., & Chénard-Poirier, L.A. (2021). Doubly latent multilevel procedures for organizational assessment and prediction. Journal of Business and Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s10869-021-09736-5
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  • Geiser, C., & Simmons, T. G. (in press). On the performance of multiple-indicator correlated traits-correlated (methods – 1) models. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling
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  • Feingold, A. (2021). Effect of parameterization on statistical power and effect size estimation in latent growth modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2021.1878895
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  • Geiser, C., & Simmons, T. G. (2021). Do method effects generalize across traits (and what if they don’t)? Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12625
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021). Expanding the Bayesian structural equation, multilevel and mixture models to logit, negative-binomial and nominal variables. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:4, 622-637, DOI:10.1080/10705511.2021.1878896
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021). Advances in Bayesian model fit evaluation for structural equation models, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2020.1764360
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  • Weller, B.E., Bowen, N.K., & Faubert, S.J. (2020). Latent Class Analysis: A guide to best practice. Journal of Black Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0095798420930932
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  • Zyphur, M.J., Allison, P.D., Tay, L. Voelkle, M.C., Preacher, K.J., Zhang, Z., Hamaker, E.L., Shamsollahi, A., Pierides, D.C., Koval, P. & Diener, E. (2020). From data to causes I: Building a general cross-lagged panel model (GCLM). Organizational Research Methods, 23(4), 651-687.
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  • Zyphur, M.J., Allison, P.D., Tay, L. Voelkle, M.C., Preacher, K.J., Zhang, Z., Hamaker, E.L., Shamsollahi, A., Pierides, D.C., Koval, P. & Diener, E. (2020). From data to causes II: Comparing approaches to panel data analysis. Organizational Research Methods, 23(4), 688-716.
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  • Asparouhov, T., & Muthén, B. (2020). IRT in Mplus. Version 4. Technical report. December 4, 2020.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2020). Comparison of models for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(2) 275-297, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1626733
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  • Mulder, J.D. & Hamaker, E.L. (2020). Three extensions of the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2020.1784738
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  • Collie, R.J., Malmberg, L.-E., Martin, A.J., Sammons, P., & Morin, A.J.S. (2020). A multilevel person-centered examination of teachers’ workplace demands and resources: Links with work-related well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 626. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00626
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  • Evans, B. E., Kim, Y. & Hagquist, C. (2020). A latent class analysis of changes in adolescent substance use between 1988 and 2011 in Sweden: associations with sex and psychosomatic problems. Addiction. Vol. 115, 1932-1941. DOI: 10.1111/add.15040
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  • Guertler, D., Moehring, A., Krause, K., Tomczyk, S., Freyer-Adam, J., Baumann, S., Bischof, G., Rumpf, H.J., Batra, A., Wurm, S., John, U., & Meyer, C. (2020). Latent alcohol use patterns and their link to depressive symptomatology in medical care patients. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.15261
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  • Hamaker, E. L., & Muthén, B. (2020). The fixed versus random effects debate and how it relates to centering in multilevel modeling. Psychological Methods, 25(3), 365–379. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000239
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  • Herle, M., Micali, N., Abdulkadir, M., Bryant-Waugh, R., Hubel, C., Bulik, C.M. & De Stavola, B.L. (2020). Identifying typical trajectories in longitudinal data: modelling strategies and interpretations. European Journal of Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1007/s10654-020-00615-6
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  • Holtmann, J., Koch, T., Bohn, J., & Eid, M. (2020). Multimethod assessement of time-stable and time-variable interindividual differences: Introduction of a new multitrait-multimethod latent state-trait IRT model. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000577
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  • Kam, C. C. S., & Fan, X. (2020). Investigating response heterogeneity in the context of positively and negatively worded items by using factor mixture modeling. Organizational Research Methods, 23(2) 322-341. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118790371
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  • Klopack, E.T.& Wickrama, K.A.S. (2020) Modeling latent change score analysis and extensions in Mplus: A practical guide for researchers. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(1), 97-110, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1562929
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  • McNeish, D. & Hamaker, E.L. (2020). A primer on two-level dynamic structural equation models for intensive longitudinal data in Mplus. Psychological Methods, 25(5), 610–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000250
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  • Zyphur, M.J., Allison, P.D., Tay, L. Voelkle, M.C., Preacher, K.J., Zhang, Z., Hamaker, E.L., Shamsollahi, A., Pierides, D.C., Koval, P. & Diener, E. (2020). From data to causes I: Building a general cross-lagged panel model (GCLM). Organizational Research Methods, 23(4), 651-687.
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  • Zyphur, M.J., Allison, P.D., Tay, L. Voelkle, M.C., Preacher, K.J., Zhang, Z., Hamaker, E.L., Shamsollahi, A., Pierides, D.C., Koval, P. & Diener, E. (2020). From data to causes II: Comparing approaches to panel data analysis. Organizational Research Methods, 23(4), 688-716.
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  • Breitsohl, H. (2019). Beyond ANOVA: An Introduction to Structural Equation Models for Experimental Designs. Organizational Research Methods, 22(3), 649-677. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118754988
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2019). Latent variable centering of predictors and mediators in multilevel and time-series models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26, 119-142. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1511375
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  • Ferguson, S. L., G. Moore, E. W., & Hull, D. M. (2019). Finding latent groups in observed data: A primer on latent profile analysis in Mplus for applied researchers. International Journal of Behavioral Development. DOI: 10.1177/0165025419881721
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  • McNeish, D. (2019). Two-Level dynamic structural equation models with small samples. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26(6), 948-966. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1578657
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  • Litson, K., Thornhill, C., Geiser, C., Burns, G.L., & Servera, M. (2019). Applying and interpreting mixture distribution latent state-trait models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 26(6), 931-947. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1575741
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  • Revuelta, J., Maydeu-Olivares, A. & Ximénez, C. (2019). Factor analysis for nominal (first choice) data.
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  • Feng, Y., Hancock, G.R, & Harring, J.R. (2019). Latent growth models with floors, ceilings, and random knots. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 54:5, 751-770. DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2019.1580556
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  • Feingold, A. (2019). New approaches for estimation of effect sizes and their con1dence intervals for treatment effects from randomized controlled trials. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 15:2, 96-111. DOI: 10.20982/tqmp.15.2.p096
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  • Feingold, A., MacKinnon, D.P., & Capaldi, D.M. (2019). Mediation analysis with binary outcomes: Direct and indirect effects of pro-alcohol influences on alcohol use disorders. Addictive Behaviors, 93, 26-35.
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  • Dong, H., Hayashi, K., Singer, J., Milloy, M.J., DeBeck, K., Wood, E., & Kerr, T. (2019). Trajectories of injection drug use among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, 1996-2017: growth mixture modeling using data from prospective cohort studies. Addiction. DOI: 10.1111/add.14756
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  • Usami, S., Murayama, K., & Hamaker, E.L. (2019). A unified framework of longitudinal models to examine reciprocal relations. Psychological Methods, 24(4), 637-657. DOI: 10.1037/met0000210
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  • DeMars, C.E. (2019). Alignment as an alternative to anchor purification in DIF analyses. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1617151
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  • Moore, S.A., Dowdy, E., Nylund-Gibson, K, & Furlong, M.J. (2019). A latent transition analysis of the longitudinal stability of dual-factor mental health in adolescence. Journal of School Psychology, 73, 56-73.
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  • Mun, C.J., Suk, H.W., Davis, M.C., Karoly, P., Finan, P., Tennen, H., & Jensen, M.P. (2019). Investigating intraindividual pain variability: Methods, applications, issues, and directions. Pain. DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001626
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  • Lundgren, B. & Schultzberg, M. (2019). Application of the economic theory of self-control to model energyconservation behavioral change in households. Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.05.217
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  • Silva, B.C., & Littvay, L. (2019). Comparative research is harder than we thought: Regional differences in experts' understanding of electoral integrity questions. Political Analysis. DOI: 10.1017/pan.2019.24
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  • Montoya, A.K. & Jeon, M. (2019). MIMIC models for uniform and nonuniform DIF as moderated mediation models. Applied Psychological Measurement. DOI: 10.1177/0146621619835496
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2019). Nesting and equivalence testing for Structural Equation Models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26:2, 302-309, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1513795
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  • Nylund-Gibson, K., Grimm, R., Masyn, K. (2019). Prediction from latent classes: A demonstration of different approaches to including distal outcomes in mixture models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26:6, 967-985, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1590146
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  • Öhrlund, I., Schultzberg, M. & Bartusch, C. (2019). Identifying and estimating the effects of a mandatory billing demand charge. Applied Energy, 237, 885-895. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.01.028
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  • Koukounari, A., Copas, A.J., & Pickles, A. (2019). A latent variable modelling approach for the pooled analysis of individual participant data on the association between depression and chlamydia infection in adolescence and young adulthood in the UK. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 182, 101-130. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12387
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  • Guo, J., Marsh, H. W., Parker, P. D., Dicke, T., Lüdtke, O., & Diallo, T. M. O. (2019). A Systematic Evaluation and Comparison Between Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling and Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1554999
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  • Zitzmann, S. & Hecht, M. (2019). Going beyond convergence in Bayesian estimation: Why precision matters too and how to assess it. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1545232
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  • Breitsohl, H. (2019). Beyond ANOVA: An introduction to structural equation models for experimental designs. Organizational Research Methods, 22(3) 649-677. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118754988
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  • McLarnon, M.J.W. & O'Neill, T.A. (2018). Extensions of auxiliary variable approaches for the investigation of mediation, moderation, and conditional effects in mixture models. Organizational Research Methods, 21(4), 955-982. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118770731
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  • Armstrong, B., Covington, L.B., Unick, G.J., & Black, M.M. (2018). Bidirectional Effects of Sleep and Sedentary Behavior Among Toddlers: A Dynamic Multilevel Modeling Approach. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44(3), 275-285. DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsy089
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  • Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., & Wagner, J. (2018). More stable estimation of the STARTS model: A Bayesian approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. Psychological Methods, 23(3), 570-593. DOI: 10.1037/met0000155.
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  • Feingold, A. (2018). Time-varying effect sizes for quadratic growth models in multilevel and latent growth modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1547110
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  • Shi, D., Song, H., DiStefano, C., Maydeu-Olivares, A., McDaniel H.L. & Jiang, Z. (2018). Evaluating factorial invariance: An interval estimation approach using Bayesian structural equation modeling. Multivariate Behavioral Research, DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1514484
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  • Leite, W.L., Stapleton, L.M., & Bettini, E.F. (2018). Propensity score analysis of complex survey data with structural equation modeling: a tutorial with Mplus, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1522591
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  • McLarnon, M.J. & O'Neill, T.A. (2018). Extensions of auxiliary variable approaches for the investigation of mediation, moderation, and conditional effects in mixture models. Organizational Research Methods. Vol. 21(4), 955-982. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118770731
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  • Schmiege, S.J., Masyn, K.E. & Bryan, A.D. (2018). Confirmatory latent class analysis: Illustrations of empirically driven and theoretically driven model constraints. Organizational Research Methods. Vol. 21(4), 983-1001. DOI: 10.1177/1094428117747689
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  • Nylund-Gibson, K., & Choi, A. Y. (2018). Ten frequently asked questions about latent class analysis. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(4), 440–461. DOI: 10.1037/tps0000176
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  • Schultzberg, M. & Muthén, B. (2018). Number of subjects and time points needed for multilevel time series analysis: A simulation study of dynamic structural equation modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25:4, 495-515, DOI:10.1080/10705511.2017.1392862.
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  • Raykov, T., Marcoulides, G.A., Menold, N., Li, T., & Zhang, M. (2018). On examining intervention effects upon ability development using latent variable modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1485494
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2018). Continuous - Time Survival Analysis in Mplus. Version 3. June 29, 2018.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2018). SRMR in Mplus. Technical Report. May 2, 2018.
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  • Joly-Burra, E., Van der Linden, M. & Ghisletta, P. (2018). Intraindividual variability in inhibition and prospective memory in healthy older adults: Insights from response regularity and rapidity. Journal of Intelligence, 6(1), 13. DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence6010013
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  • Hamaker, E.L., Asparouhov, T., Brose, A., Schmiedek, F. & Muthen, B. (2018). At the frontiers of modeling intensive longitudinal data: Dynamic structural equation models for the affective measurements from the COGITO study. Multivariate Behavioral Research, DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1446819
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  • Marsh, H. W., Guo, J., Nagengast, B., Parker, P. D., Asparouhov, T., Muthén, B., & Dicke, T. (2018). What to do when scalar invariance fails: The extended alignment method for multigroup factor analysis comparison of latent means across many groups. Psychological Methods, 23(3), 524-545. DOI: 10.1037/met0000113
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  • O’Neill, T. A., McLarnon, M. J. W., Hoffart, G. C., Woodley, H. J., & Allen, N. A. (2018). The structure and function of team conflict state profiles. Journal of Management, 44(2), 811-836. DOI:10.1177/0149206315581662
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  • Tsang, S., Duncan, G.E., Dinescu, D. & Turkheimer, E. (2018). Differential models of twin correlations in skew for body-mass index (BMI). PLoS ONE 13(3): e0194968. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0194968
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  • Enders, C.K. & Mansolf, M. (2018). Assessing the fit of structural equation models with multiply imputed data. Psychological Methods 23(1), 76–93. DOI: 10.1037/met0000102
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  • Anne Mäkikangas, A. Tolvanen, A., Aunola, K., Feldt, T., Mauno1, S. & Kinnunen, U. (2018). Multilevel latent profile analysis with covariates: Identifying job characteristics profiles in hierarchical data as an example. Organizational Research Methods. DOI: 10.1177/1094428118760690
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  • van de Schoot, R., Sijbrandij, M., Depaoli, S., Winter, S.D., Olff M. & van Loey, N.E. (2018). Bayesian PTSD-trajectory analysis with informed priors based on a systematic literature search and expert elicitation. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 53:2, 267-291, DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2017.1412293
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  • Asparouhov, T., Hamaker, E.L. & Muthen, B. (2018). Dynamic structural equation models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25:3, 359-388, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2017.1406803
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  • Pendergast, L. L., von der Embse, N., Kilgus, S. P., & Eklund, K. R. (2017). Measurement equivalence: A non-technical primer on categorical multi-group confirmatory factor analysis in school psychology. Journal of School Psychology, 60, 65-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2016.11.002
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  • Lomazzi, V. (2017). Using alignment optimization to test the measurement invariance of gender role attitudes in 59 countries. methods, data, analyses, [S.l.], p. 27, ISSN 2190-4936.
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  • Munck, I., Barber, C. & Torney-Purta, J. (2017). Measurement invariance in comparing attitudes toward immigrants among youth across Europe in 1999 and 2009: The alignment method applied to IEA CIVED and ICCS. Sociological Methods & Research, DOI: 10.1177/0049124117729691
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  • Dombrowski, S.C., Golay, P., McGill, R.J. & Canivez, G.L. (2017). Investigating the theoretical structure of the DAS-II core battery at school age using Bayesian structural equation modeling. Psychology in the Schools. 2017;1–18. DOI: 10.1002/pits.22096
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  • Gottfredson, N.C., Panter, A.T., Daye, C.E., Allen, W.F. & Wightman, L.F. (2009). The effects of educational diversity in a national samples of law students: Fitting multilevel latent variable models in data with categorical indicators. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 305-331.
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  • Grimm, K.J. & Ram, N. (2009). A second-order growth mixture model for developmental research. Research in Human Development, 6, 121-143.
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  • Grimm, K.J. & Ram, N. (2009). Nonlinear growth models in Mplus and SAS. Structural Equation Modeling, 16, 676-701. Click here to view related Mplus scripts.
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  • Kerner, B. & Muthén, B. (2009). Growth mixture modelling in families of the Framingham Heart Study. BMC Proceedings, 3, 1-5.
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  • Kim, Y.K. & Muthén, B. (2009). Two-part factor mixture modeling:  Application to an aggressive behavior measurement instrument. Structural Equation Modeling, 16, 602-624.
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  • Marsh, H.W., Lüdtke, O., Trautwein, U., & Morin, A.J.S. (2009). Classical latent profile analysis of academic self-concept dimensions: Synergy of person- and variable- centered approaches to theoretical models of self-concept. Structural Equation Modeling, 16:2,191-225.
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  • Marsh, H.W., Ludtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Trautwein, U., Asparouhov, T., Muthén, B., & Nagengast, B. (2009). Doubly-latent models of school contextual effects: Integrating multilevel and structural equation approaches to control measurement and sampling errors. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 764-802. Click here to view the appendix that goes with this paper.
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  • Marsh, H.W., Muthén, B., Asparouhov, A., Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Morin, A.J.S., & Trautwein, U. (2009). Exploratory structural equation modeling, integrating CFA and EFA: Application to students’ evaluations of university teaching. Structural Equation Modeling, 16, 439-476.
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  • Masyn, K. E. (2009). Discrete-time survival factor mixture analysis for low-frequency recurrent event histories. Research in Human Development, 6, 165-194.
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  • Moosbrugger, H., Schermelleh-Engel, K., Kelava; A. & Klein, A. G (2009). Testing multiple nonlinear effects in structural equation modeling: A comparison of alternative estimation approaches. Invited Chapter in T. Teo & M. S. Khine (Eds.), Structural Equation Modelling in Educational Research: Concepts and Applications. Rotterdam, NL: Sense Publishers.
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  • Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2009). Multilevel regression mixture analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 172, 639-657.
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  • Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2009). Growth mixture modeling: Analysis with non-Gaussian random effects. In Fitzmaurice, G., Davidian, M., Verbeke, G. & Molenberghs, G. (eds.), Longitudinal Data Analysis, pp. 143-165. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
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  • Muthén, B. & Brown, H. (2009). Estimating drug effects in the presence of placebo response: Causal inference using growth mixture modeling. Statistics in Medicine, 28, 3363-3385.
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  • Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T., Boye, M., Hackshaw, M. & Naegeli, A. (2009). Applications of continuous-time survival in latent variable models for the analysis of oncology randomized clinical trial data using Mplus. Technical Report. Click here to view Mplus outputs used in this paper.
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  • Pek, J., Sterba, S., Kok, B. & Bauer, D. (2009). Estimating and visualizing nonlinear relations among latent variables: A semiparametric approach. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44, 407 - 436.
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  • Petras, H. & Masyn, K. "General growth mixture analysis with antecedents and consequences of change." Handbook of Quantitative Criminology. Ed. Alex Piquero, Ed. David Weisburd. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2010. 69-100.
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  • Petras, H., Nieuwbeerta, P., & Piquero, A.R. (2009). Participation and frequency during criminal careers over the life span. Criminology, 48(2). DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00197.x
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  • Stormshak, E.A., Connell, A. & Dishion, T.J. (2009). An adaptive approach to family-centered intervention in schools: Linking intervention engagement to academic outcomes in middle and high school. Prevention Science, 10, 221-235.
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  • Tucker-Drob, E.M. (2009). Differentiation of cognitive abilities across the lifespan. Developmental Psychology, 45(4), 1097-1118. DOI: 10.1037/a0015864
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  • Uher, R., Muthén, B., Souery, D., Mors, O., Jaracz, J., Placentino, A., Petrovic, A., Zobel, A., Henigsberg, N., Rietschel, M., Aitchison, K., Farmer, A. & McGuffin, P. (2009). Trajectories of change in depression severity during treatment with antidepressants. Psychological Medicine, published online October 29, 2009.
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  • Uher, R., Muthén, B., Souery, D., Mors, O., Jaracz, J., Placentino, A., Petrovic, A., Zobel, A., Henigsberg, N., Rietschel, M., Aitchison, K., Farmer, A. & McGuffin, P. (2009). Technical appendix: Methods and results of growth mixture modelling. Psychological Medicine, published online October 29, 2009.
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  • Van Horn, M. L., Jaki, T., Masyn, K., Ramey, S. L., Smith, J. A., & Antaramian, S. (2009). Assessing differential effects: Applying regression mixture models to identify variations in the influence of family resources on academic achievement. Developmental Psychology, 45(5), 1298–1313.DOI: 10.1037/a0016427
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  • Woods, C.M. (2009). Evaluation of MIMIC-Model Methods for DIF Testing With Comparison to Two-Group Analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 44:1,1-27.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2008). Multilevel mixture models. In Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.), Advances in latent variable mixture models, pp. 27-51. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Click here for information about the book.
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  • Bartels, M., Cacioppo, J.T., Hudziak, J.J., & Boomsma, D.I. (2008). Genetic and environmental contributions to stability in loneliness throughout childhood. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B, 147B, 385-391.
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  • Boscardin, C., Muthén, B., Francis, D. & Baker, E. (2008). Early identification of reading difficulties using heterogeneous developmental trajectories. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 192-208.
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  • Cheung, M.W.L. (2008). A model for integrating fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects meta-analyses into structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 13, 182–202.
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  • Eid, M., Nussbeck, F., Geiser, C., Cole, D., Gollwitzer, M. & Lischetzke, T. (2008). Structural equation modeling of multitrait-multimethod data: Different models for different types of methods. Psychological Methods, 13, 230-253.
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  • Geiser, C., Eid, M. & Nussbeck, F. W. (2008). On the meaning of the latent variables in the CT-C(M–1) model: A comment on Maydeu-Olivares & Coffman (2006). Psychological Methods, 13, 49-57.
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  • D’Onofrio, B.M., Hulle, C.A., Waldman, I.D., Rodgers, J. L. Harden, K.P., Rathouz, P.J. & Lahey, B.B. (2008). Smoking during pregnancy and offspring externalizing problems: An exploration of genetic and environmental confounds. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 139-164. Mplus scripts can be obtained from the first author.
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  • Dumenci, L. & Achenbach, T.M. (2008). Effects of estimation methods on making trait-level inferences from ordered categorical items for assessing psychopathology. Psychological Assessment, 20, 55-62.
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  • Hatton, H., Donnellan, M.B., Masyn, K., Feldman, B.J., Larsen-Rife, D., & Conger, R.D. (2008). Family and individual difference predictors of trait aspects of negative interpersonal behaviors during emerging adulthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 448-455.
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  • Jo, B., Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2008). Intention-to-treat analysis in cluster randomized trials with noncompliance. Statistics in Medicine, 27, 5565-5577.
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  • Jo, B., Asparouhov, T., Muthén, B., Ialongo, N. & Brown, H. (2008). Cluster randomized trials with treatment noncompliance. Psychological Methods, 13, 1-18.
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  • Jung, T. & Wickrama, K.A.S. (2008). An introduction to latent class growth analysis and growth mixture modeling. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 302-317.
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  • Kaplan, D. (2008). An overview of Markov chain methods for the study of stage-sequential developmental processes. Developmental Psychology, 44, 457-467.
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  • Kreuter, F. & Muthén, B. (2008). Analyzing criminal trajectory profiles: Bridging multilevel and group-based approaches using growth mixture modeling. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24, 1-31. Click here to download Mplus input and output files associated with this paper.
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  • Kreuter, F. & Muthén, B. (2008). Longitudinal modeling of population heterogeneity: Methodological challenges to the analysis of empirically derived criminal trajectory profiles. In Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.), Advances in latent variable mixture models, pp. 53-75. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Click here for information about the book.
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  • Kreuter, F., Yan, T. & Tourangeau, R. (2008). Good item or bad – can latent class analysis tell?: The utility of latent class analysis for the evaluation of survey questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 171, 723-738.
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  • Lüdtke, O., Marsh, H.W., Robitzsch, A., Trautwein, U., Asparouhov, T., & Muthén, B. (2008). The multilevel latent covariate model: A new, more reliable approach to group-level effects in contextual studies. Psychological Methods, 13, 203-229.
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  • Masyn, K. E. (2008). Modeling measurement error in event occurrence for single, non-recurring events in discrete-time survival analysis. In Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.), Advances in latent variable mixture models, pp. 105-145. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Click here for information about the book.
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  • Muthén, B. (2008). Latent variable hybrids:  Overview of old and new models. In Hancock, G. R., & Samuelsen, K. M. (Eds.), Advances in latent variable mixture models, pp. 1-24. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc. Click here for information about the book.
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  • Rathouz, P.J., Hulle, C.A., Rodgers, J.L., Waldman, I.D., & Lahey, B.B. (2008). Specification, testing, and interpretation of gene-by-measured-environment interaction models in the presence of gene-environment correlations. Behavior Genetics, 38, 301-315.
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  • Raykov, T. (2008). “Alpha if item deleted”: A note on loss of criterion validity in scale development if maximizing coefficient alpha. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 61, 275-285.
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  • Stapleton, L.M. (2008). Variance estimation using replication methods in structural equation modeling with complex sample data. Structural Equation Modeling, 15, 183-210.
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  • Temme, D., Paulssen, M., & Dannewald, T. (2008). Incorporating latent variables into discrete choice models – A simultaneous estimation approach using SEM software. BuR – Business Research, 1, 220-237.
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  • Tolvanen, A. (2008). Latent growth mixture modeling: A simulation study. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Mathematics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
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  • Van Horn, M.L., Fagan, A.A., Jaki, T., Brown, E.C., Hawkins, J.D., Arthur, M.W., Abbott, R.D., & Catalano, R. F. (2008). Using multilevel mixtures to evaluate intervention effects in group randomized trials. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 43(2), 289-326. PMC - In Process.
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  • Witkiewitz, K., & Masyn, K. E. (2008). Drinking trajectories following an initial lapse. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22(2), 157–167. DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.22.2.157
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2007). Testing for informative weights and weights trimming in multivariate modeling with survey data. Proceedings of the 2007 JSM meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Section on Survey Research Methods.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2007). Computationally efficient estimation of multilevel high-dimensional latent variable models. Proceedings of the 2007 JSM meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology.
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  • Boomsma, D., Cacioppo, J., Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T. & Clark, S. (2007). Longitudinal genetic analysis for loneliness in Dutch twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 10, 267-273.
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  • Bray, B.C. (2007). Examining gambling and substance use: Applications of advanced latent class modeling techniques for cross-sectional and longitudinal data. Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University.
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  • Grilli, L & Rampichini, C. (2007). Multilevel factor models for ordinal variables. Structural Equation Modeling, 14, 1-25.
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  • Lubke, G. & Muthén, B. (2007). Performance of factor mixture models as a function of model size, covariate effects, and class-specific parameters. Structural Equation Modeling, 14(1), 26–47.
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  • Lubke, G., Muthén, B., Moilanen, I., McGough, J., Loo, S., Swanson, J., Yang, M., Taanila, A., Hurtig, T., Jarvelin, M. & Smalley, S. (2007). Subtypes versus severity differences in the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder in the northern Finnish birth cohort. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1584-1593.
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  • MacKinnon, D.P., Lockwood, C.M., Brown, C.H., Wang, W., & Hoffman, J.M. (2007). The intermediate endpoint effect in logistic and probit regression. Clinical Trials, 4, 499-513.
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  • Morgan-Lopez, A. A. & Fals-Steward, W. (2007). Analytic methods for modeling longitudinal data from rolling therapy groups with membership turnover. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 580-593.
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  • Nylund, K. (2007). Latent transition analysis: Modeling extensions and an application to peer victimization. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
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  • Nylund, K.L., Asparouhov, T., & Muthén, B. (2007). Deciding on the number of classes in latent class analysis and growth mixture modeling. A Monte Carlo simulation study. Structural Equation Modeling, 14, 535-569.
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  • Nylund, K.L., Muthén, B., Nishina, A., Bellmore, A. & Graham, S. (2007). Stability and Instability of Peer Victimization during Middle School: Using Latent Transition Analysis with Covariates, Distal Outcomes, and Modeling Extensions.
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  • Pettit, G.S., Keiley, M.K., Laird, R.D., Bates, J.E. & Dodge, K.A. (2007). Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents’ worries. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 206-217.
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  • Vazsonyi, A.T. & Keiley, M.K. (2007). Normative developmental trajectories of aggressive behaviors in African American, American Indian, Asian American, Caucasian, and Hispanic children and early adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35, 1047-1062.
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  • Zumbo, B.D. (2007). Three generations of DIF analyses:Considering where it has been, where it is now, and where it is going. Language Aseessment Quarterly, 4(2), 223–233.
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  • Asparouhov, T. (2006). General multi-level modeling with sampling weights. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Volume 35, Number 3, 2006, pp. 439-460(22). An earlier version of this paper appeared as Mplus Web Notes: No. 8 with the title Weighting for unequal probability of selection in multilevel modeling. Refer to Mplus Web Notes: No. 8 for more details.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2006). Comparison of estimation methods for complex survey data analysis.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2006). Multilevel modeling of complex survey data. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting in Seattle, August 2006. ASA section on Survey Research Methods, 2718-2726.
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  • Asparouhov, T., Masyn, K. & Muthén, B. (2006). Continuous time survival in latent variable models. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting in Seattle, August 2006. ASA section on Biometrics, 180-187. Click here to download the files associated with this paper.
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  • Coenders, G., Batista-Foguet, J.M. & Saris, W. (2006). Simple, efficient and distribution-free approach to interaction effects in complex structural equation models. Quality & Quantity, 42, 369-396.
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  • Maydeu-Olivares, A., & Coffman, D. L. (2006). Random intercept item factor analysis. Psychological Methods, 11, 344 –362.
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  • Geiser, C., Lehman, W., & Eid, M. (2006). Separating rotators from nonrotators in the Mental Rotation Test: A multigroup latent class analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 41, 261-293.
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  • Guo, J., Wall, M. & Amemiya, Y. (2006). Latent class regression on latent factors. Biostatistics, 7, 145-163. This type of modeling can be done using ML techniques illustrated in the Mplus Version 3 User's Guide (first printed in March 2004), example 7.19. The authors emailed us and apologized for not seeing this Mplus capability earlier and not referencing it in the paper.
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  • Harden, K.P., Turkheimer, E. & Loehlin, J.C. (2006). Genotype by environment interaction in adolescents’ cognitive aptitude. Behavioral Genetics.
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  • Lubke, G. & Neale, M. (2006). Distinguishing between latent classes and continuous factors: Resolution by maximum likelihood? Multivariate Behavioral Research, 41(4), 499–532.
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  • Muthén, B. (2006). Should substance use disorders be considered as categorical or dimensional? Addiction, 101 (Suppl. 1), 6-16.
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  • Muthén, B. (2006). The potential of growth mixture modeling. Commentary. Infant and Child Development, 15, 623-625.
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  • Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2006). Item response mixture modeling: Application to tobacco dependence criteria. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 1050-1066.
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  • Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T. & Rebollo, I. (2006). Advances in behavioral genetics modeling using Mplus: Applications of factor mixture modeling to twin data. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 9, 313-324. Mplus inputs, outputs, and data are not yet available for this article.
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  • Schaeffer, C.M., Petras, H., Ialongo, N., Masyn, K.E., Hubbard, S., Poduska, J., & Sheppard, K. (2006). A comparison of girl's and boy's aggressive-disruptive behavior trajectories across elementary school: Prediction to young adult antisocial outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 500-510.
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  • Asparouhov, T. (2005). Sampling weights in latent variable modeling. Structural Equation Modeling, 12, 411-434.
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  • Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2005). Multivariate statistical modeling with survey data. Proceedings of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research Conference.
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  • Bauer, D.J. (2005). The role of nonlinear factor-to-indicator relationships. Psychological Methods, 10, 305-316. This paper draws on techniques illustrated in the Mplus Version 3 User's Guide (first printed in March 2004), example 5.7.
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  • Bauer, D.J. (2005). A semiparametric approach to modeling nonlinear relations among latent variables. Structural Equation Modeling, 12, 513-534. This paper draws on techniques illustrated in the Mplus Version 3 User's Guide (first printed in March 2004), example 7.26.

  • Brown, E.C., Catalano, C.B., Fleming, C.B., Haggerty, K.P. & Abbot, R.D. (2005). Adolescent substance use outcomes in the Raising Healthy Children Project: A two-part latent growth curve analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 699-710. Mplus outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Clark, D., Birmaher, B., Axelson, D., Monk, K., Kalas, C., Ehmann, M., Bridge, J., Wood, S., Muthén, B., & Brent, D. (2005). Fluoxetine for the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders: Open-label, long-term extension to a controlled trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 1263-1270.
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  • Dyer, N.G., Hanges, P.J. & Hall, R.J. (2005). Applying multilevel confirmatory factor analysis techniques to the study of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly 16 (2005), 149–167.
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  • Greenbaum, P.E., Del Boca, F.K., Darkes, J., Wang, C. & Goldman, M.S. (2005). Variation in the drinking trajectories of freshman college students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 229-238
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  • Lubke, G.H. & Muthén, B. (2005). Investigating population heterogeneity with factor mixture models. Psychological Methods, 10, 21-39.
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  • Maydeu-Olivares, A. & Bockenholt, U. (2005). Structural equation modeling of paired-comparison and ranking data. Psychological Methods, 10, 285-304.
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  • Mehta, P. & Neale, M. (2005). People are variables too: Multilevel structural equations modeling. Psychological Methods, 10, 259-284. This paper draws on techniques illustrated in the Mplus Version 3 User's Guide (first printed in March 2004), example 9.10.
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  • Muthén, B. & Masyn, K. (2005). Discrete-time survival mixture analysis. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 30, 27-58.
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  • Yuan, K.H. & Hayashi, K. (2005). On Muthén's maximum likelihood for two-level covariance structure models. Psychometrika, 70, 147-167.
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  • Asparouhov, T. (2004). Stratification in multivariate modeling. Mplus Web Notes: No. 9. Click here for more details.
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  • Flora, D.B. & Curran P.J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9, 466-491.
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  • Hox, J. & Lensvelt-Mulders, G. (2004). Randomized response analysis in Mplus. Structural Equation Modeling, 11, 615-620.
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  • Muthén, B. (2004). Latent variable analysis: Growth mixture modeling and related techniques for longitudinal data. In D. Kaplan (ed.), Handbook of quantitative methodology for the social sciences (pp. 345-368). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
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  • Prescott, C.A. (2004). Using the Mplus computer program to estimate models for continuous and categorical data from twins. Behavior Genetics, 34, 17-40.
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  • van Lier, P.A.C., Muthén, B., van der Sar, R.M. & Crijnen, A.A.M. (2004). Preventing disruptive behavior in elementary schoolchildren: Impact of a universal classroom-based intervention. In Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 467-478.
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  • Croudace, T.J., Jarvelin, M.R., Wadsworth, M.E. & Jones, P.B. (2003). Developmental typology of trajectories to nighttime bladder control: Epidemiologic application of longitudinal latent class analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, May 1;157(9):834-42. To request a copy of the paper, contact the first author.
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  • Dunn, G., Maracy, M., Dowrick, C., Ayuso-Mateos, J.L., Dalgard, O.S., Page, H., Lehtinen, V., Casey, P., Wilkinson, C., Vasquez-Barquero, J.L., & Wilkinson, G. (2003). Estimating psychological treatment effects from a randomized controlled trial with both non-compliance and loss to follow-up. British Journal of Psychiatry, 183, 323-331.
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  • Jo, B. & Muthén, B. (2003). Longitudinal studies with intervention and noncompliance: Estimation of causal effects in growth mixture modeling. In S.P. Reise & Duan, N. (eds.) Multilevel Modeling. Methodological Advances, Issues, and Applications (pp.112-139). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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  • MacIntosh, R. & Hashim, S. (2003). Converting MIMIC model parameters to IRT parameters in DIF analysis. Applied Psyhological Measurement, 27, 372-379.
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  • Masyn, K. E. (2003). Discrete-time survival mixture analysis for single and recurrent events using latent variables. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
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  • Muthén, B. (2003). Statistical and substantive checking in growth mixture modeling. Psychological Methods, 8, 369-377.
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  • Muthén, B., Jo, B. & Brown, H. (2003). Comment on the Barnard, Frangakis, Hill & Rubin article, Principal stratification approach to broken randomized experiments: A case study of school choice vouchers in New York City. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 311-314. The Muthén et al. article can be downloaded from here. The Barnard et al. article can be found at http://biosun01.biostat.jhsph.edu/~cfrangak/papers/index.html. For background information and analyses using Mplus, see Mplus Web Note #5 and Jo (2002), Sensitivity of causal effects under ignorable and latent ignorable missing-data mechanisms, Draft. Contact the author. The Jo paper can be downloaded from here.
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  • Muthén, B., Khoo, S.T., Francis, D. & Kim Boscardin, C. (2003). Analysis of reading skills development from Kindergarten through first grade: An application of growth mixture modeling to sequential processes. Multilevel Modeling: Methodological Advances, Issues, and Applications. S.R. Reise & N. Duan (Eds). Mahaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp.71-89.
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  • Oxford, M.L., Gilchrist, L.D., Morrison, D.M., Gillmore, M.R., Lohr M.J. & Lewis, S.M. (2003). Alcohol use among adolescent mothers: Heterogeneity in growth curves. Prevention Science, 4, 15-26. To request a copy of the paper, contact the first author.
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  • Schaeffer, C.M., Petras, H., Ialongo, N., Poduska, J. & Kellam, S. (2003). Modeling growth in boys aggressive behavior across elementary school: Links to later criminal involvement, conduct disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Developmental Psychology, 39, 1020-1035.
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  • Dagne, G.A., Howe, G.W., Brown, C.H., & Muthén, B. (2002). Hierarchical modeling of sequential behavioral data: An empirical Bayesian approach. Psychological Methods, 7, 262-280. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Jo, B. (2002). Statistical power in randomized intervention studies with noncompliance. Psychological Methods, 7, 178-193. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Jo, B. (2002). Model misspecification sensitivity analysis in estimating causal effects of interventions with noncompliance. Statistics in Medicine, 21, 3161-3181.
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  • Jo, B. (2002). Estimation of intervention effects with noncompliance: Alternative model specifications. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 27, 385-409.
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  • Muthén, B. (2002). Beyond SEM: General latent variable modeling. Behaviormetrika, 29, 81-117.
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  • Muthén, B., Brown, C.H., Masyn, K., Jo, B., Khoo, S.T., Yang, C.C., Wang, C.P., Kellam, S., Carlin, J., & Liao, J. (2002). General growth mixture modeling for randomized preventive interventions. Biostatistics, 3, 459-475. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Muthén, L.K. & Muthén, B.O. (2002). How to use a Monte Carlo study to decide on sample size and determine power. Structural Equation Modeling, 4, 599-620. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Yu, C.Y. (2002). Evaluating cutoff criteria of model fit indices for latent variable models with binary and continuous outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
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  • Muthén, B. (2001). Two-Part Growth Mixture Modeling.
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  • Jo, B. & Muthén, B. (2001). Modeling of intervention effects with noncompliance: A latent variable approach for randomized trials. In G. Marcoulides & R.E. Schumacker (eds.) New Developments and Techniques in Structural Equation Modeling (pp. 57-87). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
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  • Muthén, B. (2001). Second-generation structural equation modeling with a combination of categorical and continuous latent variables: New opportunities for latent class/latent growth modeling. In Collins, L.M. & Sayer, A. (eds.), New Methods for the Analysis of Change (pp. 291-322). Washington, D.C.: APA.
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  • Muthén, B. (2001). Latent variable mixture modeling. In G. A. Marcoulides & R. E. Schumacker (eds.), New Developments and Techniques in Structural Equation Modeling (pp. 1-33). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Stoolmiller, M. (2001). Synergistic interaction of child manageability problems and parent-discipline tactics in predicting future growth in externalizing behavior for boys. Developmental Psychology, 37, 814-825.
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  • Muthén, B. & Muthén, L. (2000). Integrating person-centered and variable-centered analyses: Growth mixture modeling with latent trajectory classes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24, 882-891. Mplus inputs and outputs used in this paper can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Examples page.
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  • Muthén, B. & Muthén, L. (2000). The development of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems from ages 18 to 37 in a U.S. national sample. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 290-300.
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  • Muthén, B. & Shedden, K. (1999). Finite mixture modeling with mixture outcomes using the EM algorithm. Biometrics, 55, 463-469.
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  • Muthén, B. & Curran, P. (1997). General longitudinal modeling of individual differences in experimental designs: a latent variable framework for analysis and power estimation. Psychological Methods, 2, 371-402.
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  • Muthén, B., du Toit, S.H.C., & Spisic, D. (1997). Robust inference using weighted least squares and quadratic estimating equations in latent variable modeling with categorical and continuous outcomes. Unpublished technical report.
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  • Muthén, B., Khoo, S.T. & Gustafsson, J.E. (1997). Multilevel latent variable modeling in multiple populations. Unpublished technical report.
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  • Muthén, B. & Satorra, A. (1995). Complex sample data in structural equation modeling. Sociological Methodology, 25, 267-316.
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  • Muthén, B. & Satorra, A. (1995). Technical aspects of Muthén's LISCOMP approach to estimation of latent variable relations with a comprehensive measurement model. Psychometrika, 60, 489-503.
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  • Muthén, B. (1994). Multilevel covariance structure analysis. In J. Hox & I. Kreft (eds.), Multilevel Modeling, a special issue of Sociological Methods & Research, 22, 376-398.
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  • Muthén, B. (1990). Mean and covariance structure analysis of hierarchical data. Paper presented at the Psychometric Society meeting in Princeton, NJ, June 1990. UCLA Statistics Series 62.
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  • Muthén, B. (1989). Tobit factor analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 42, 241-250.
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  • Muthén, B. (1989). Latent variable modeling in heterogeneous populations. Psychometrika, 54:4, 557-585.
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  • Muthén, B. (1989). The future of methodological training in educational psychology: The problem of teaching students to use new sophisticated statistical techniques. In M. C. Wittrock, & F. Farley (Eds.), The Future of Educational Psychology ( pp. 181-189). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
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  • Muthén, B., Kaplan, D. & Hollis, M. (1987). On structural equation modeling with data that are not missing completely at random. Psychometrika, 52:3, 431-462.
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  • Muthén, B., Kaplan, (1985). A comparison of some methodologies for the factor analysis of non-normal Likert variables. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 38, 171-189.
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  • Muthén, B. (1984). A general structural equation model with dichotomous, ordered categorical, and continuous latent variable indicators. Psychometrika, 49, 115-132.
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  • Muthén, B. (1983). Latent variable structural equation modeling with categorical data. Journal of Econometrics, 22, 43-65.
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  • Muthén, B. (1979). A structural Probit model with latent variables. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74, 807-811.
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  • Muthén, B. (1978). Contributions to factor analysis of dichotomous variables. Psychometrika, 43, 551-560.
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  • Wheaton, B., Muthén, B., Alwin, D., & Summers, G. (1977). Assessing reliability and stability in panel models. In D. R. Heise (Ed.), Sociological Methodology 1977 (pp. 84-136). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc.
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