Mplus Web Talk No. 6 - Using Mplus To Do
Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling, February 28, 2023

The web talk pdf has 130 slides. The web talk can be watched in its full-length, in separate segments below or via our YouTube playlist. The total running time for this web talk is 4 hours and 33 minutes.

• Segment 1, (slides 1-3), 8 minutes:

  Introduction

  
  
• Segment 2, (slides 4-15), 16 minutes:

  Introducing the Example

  The TINTERVAL Option

  
  
• Segment 3, (slides 16-24), 14 minutes:

  Descriptive Analyses to Understand the Data

  TYPE = TWOLEVEL BASIC

  
  
• Segment 4, (slides 25-39), 33 minutes:

  Regular Twolevel Analysis

  Type = TWOLEVEL (RANDOM)

  
  
• Segment 5, (slides 40-55), 36 minutes:

  Two-Level Analysis Bringing Time Into the Model

  DSEM for a Single Outcome

  
  
• Segment 6, (slides 56-59), 9 minutes:

  N = 1 DSEM

  Classic Time Series Analysis

  
  
• Segment 7, (slides 60-70), 25 minutes:

  Twolevel DSEM with Random Residual Variance

  
  
• Segment 8, (slides 71-79), 16 minutes:

  DSEM Plots

  
  
• Segment 9, (slide 80), 1 minute:

  Mplus Runs

  
  
• Segment 9.1, (slide 80), 9 minutes:

  Step 1 TYPE=TWOLEVEL BASIC run from Segment 3

  
  
• Segment 9.2, (slide 80), 11 minutes:

  Step 2 Type = Twolevel Random (regular twolevel)

  Step 3, Model 2 DSEM with random residual variance

  
  
• Segment 10, (slides 81-97), 40 minutes:

  Twolevel DSEM

  Two Outcomes

  
  
• Segment 11, (slides 98-105), 13 minutes:

  Lag0 Effect

  RDSEM

  
  
• Segment 12, (slides 106-110), 8 minutes:

  Categorical Outcome

  
  
• Segment 13, (slides 111-120), 13 minutes:

  Cross-Classified Analysis

  
  
• Segment 14, (slide 121), 2 minutes:

  Mplus Run for CrossClassified

  
  
• Segment 14.1, (slide 121), 6 minutes:

  Step 5 TYPE = CROSSCLASSIFIED Plots

  
  
• Segment 15, (slides 122-128), 15 minutes:

  How Large do N and T Have to Be?

  
  

New Features in Version 8.9:

• Segment 4, Slide 33: Random residual correlation for regular twolevel analysis
  
  
• Segment 5, slide 52: TINTERVAL
  
  
• Segment 7, slide 69: SAVEDATA for twolevel DSEM
  
  
• Segment 10, slide 85: Random residual correlation for twolevel DSEM
  
  
• Segment 15, slide 127: Monte Carlo simulations