Mplus VERSION 8.8
MUTHEN & MUTHEN
04/19/2022 11:09 PM
INPUT INSTRUCTIONS
TITLE: this is an example of a path analysis
with continuous dependent variables
DATA: FILE IS ex3.11.dat;
VARIABLE: NAMES ARE y1-y3 x1-x3;
MODEL: y1 y2 ON x1 x2 x3;
y3 ON y1 y2 x2;
INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY
this is an example of a path analysis
with continuous dependent variables
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS
Number of groups 1
Number of observations 500
Number of dependent variables 3
Number of independent variables 3
Number of continuous latent variables 0
Observed dependent variables
Continuous
Y1 Y2 Y3
Observed independent variables
X1 X2 X3
Estimator ML
Information matrix OBSERVED
Maximum number of iterations 1000
Convergence criterion 0.500D-04
Maximum number of steepest descent iterations 20
Input data file(s)
ex3.11.dat
Input data format FREE
UNIVARIATE SAMPLE STATISTICS
UNIVARIATE HIGHER-ORDER MOMENT DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Variable/ Mean/ Skewness/ Minimum/ % with Percentiles
Sample Size Variance Kurtosis Maximum Min/Max 20%/60% 40%/80% Median
Y1 -1.108 0.018 -13.766 0.20% -4.787 -2.157 -1.159
500.000 17.433 -0.193 9.631 0.20% -0.237 2.613
Y2 0.027 0.121 -11.928 0.20% -3.564 -0.944 -0.067
500.000 17.103 0.033 14.188 0.20% 1.021 3.350
Y3 0.499 -0.009 -15.069 0.20% -4.398 -1.203 0.419
500.000 31.757 -0.383 16.217 0.20% 1.996 5.386
X1 0.046 0.006 -3.268 0.20% -0.875 -0.207 0.030
500.000 1.143 0.311 3.468 0.20% 0.358 0.873
X2 -0.027 -0.152 -2.818 0.20% -0.986 -0.221 0.093
500.000 1.066 -0.277 2.993 0.20% 0.341 0.820
X3 -0.012 0.034 -3.229 0.20% -0.798 -0.270 -0.038
500.000 1.074 0.285 3.252 0.20% 0.219 0.851
THE MODEL ESTIMATION TERMINATED NORMALLY
MODEL FIT INFORMATION
Number of Free Parameters 15
Loglikelihood
H0 Value -2364.002
H1 Value -2363.623
Information Criteria
Akaike (AIC) 4758.004
Bayesian (BIC) 4821.223
Sample-Size Adjusted BIC 4773.612
(n* = (n + 2) / 24)
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit
Value 0.757
Degrees of Freedom 3
P-Value 0.8598
RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error Of Approximation)
Estimate 0.000
90 Percent C.I. 0.000 0.040
Probability RMSEA <= .05 0.972
CFI/TLI
CFI 1.000
TLI 1.000
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit for the Baseline Model
Value 4107.449
Degrees of Freedom 12
P-Value 0.0000
SRMR (Standardized Root Mean Square Residual)
Value 0.001
MODEL RESULTS
Two-Tailed
Estimate S.E. Est./S.E. P-Value
Y1 ON
X1 0.992 0.043 22.979 0.000
X2 2.001 0.045 44.618 0.000
X3 3.052 0.045 68.274 0.000
Y2 ON
X1 2.935 0.050 59.002 0.000
X2 1.992 0.052 38.556 0.000
X3 1.023 0.051 19.869 0.000
Y3 ON
Y1 0.507 0.020 25.491 0.000
Y2 0.746 0.020 37.914 0.000
X2 1.046 0.072 14.540 0.000
Intercepts
Y1 -1.064 0.046 -23.059 0.000
Y2 -0.042 0.053 -0.784 0.433
Y3 1.068 0.063 17.093 0.000
Residual Variances
Y1 1.061 0.067 15.811 0.000
Y2 1.408 0.089 15.811 0.000
Y3 1.717 0.109 15.811 0.000
QUALITY OF NUMERICAL RESULTS
Condition Number for the Information Matrix 0.979E-02
(ratio of smallest to largest eigenvalue)
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