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  • 1-1-1-1 indirect effect
  • 3-way interaction in two-level regression
  • Alignment R-square
  • ANOVA using SEM in Mplus
  • Bayes block diagonal covariance matrices
  • Bayesian analysis using the PX parameterization
  • BCH with direct effect from covariate to indicator
  • Between and Within covariance matrices
  • Between-level differences in within-level variances
  • Between-level residual for each cluster
  • Bi-factor compared to correlated factors model
  • Bi-factor model not identified for 6 items and 2 specific factors.
  • BIC citations of interest - how big a difference
  • Binary item measurement invariance testing
  • Blanks in the data - how to find them
  • Bootstrap P-value
  • Bootstrap problems
  • Bootstrap with WLSMV and TYPE=COMPLEX
  • BSEM input for groups and timepoints
  • CFI differences between programs
  • Class counts for between level latent class variable
  • Class counts with weights
  • Class order change using SVALUES
  • Class probabilities held equal across time
  • Class probabilities with Bayes
  • Condition number
  • Confidence intervals for estimated means in GMM
  • Correlations for categorical variables
  • Count regression with different length of exposure uses an offset - also for modeling proportions
  • Covariates – analysis conditioned on covariates
  • Covariates – bringing them into the model
  • Cross-level effect plotted by LOOP
  • Delta method and Sobel
  • Diagram without analysis
  • Different number of variables in different groups
  • Distal outcome regressed on an intercept growth factor at different time points
  • EFA - number of parameters
  • EFA with factors as indicators
  • ESEM with second-order factors
  • Estimator choices with categorical outcomes
  • Factor scores
  • First-order derivative message
  • G2 and Deviance
  • GLM with log link and Poisson regression for continuous variables
  • GMM analysis strategies
  • Hardware
  • Heckman modeling
  • ICC changes from one model to another
  • ICC in DSEM
  • ICCs for 3-level
  • IRT parameterization - when is it printed?
  • IRT parameterization for the graded response model
  • IRT parameterization using Mplus thresholds
  • K-means clustering versus LCA
  • Lambda is not compatible with the notion of simplicity of the rotation criterion
  • Latent change score modeling scripts
  • Latent variable decomposition of X in 2-level models with algorithm=integration
  • Latent variable interactions
  • Latent variable interaction LOOP plot
  • Level-2 R-square decreasing when adding level-1 covariate
  • LTA - Movers can stay
  • LTA Mover-Stayer - Why some Movers are staying
  • LTA predicting specific transitions
  • LTA with Movers-Stayers
  • LTA with transition probs varying as a function of covariates
  • Making an observed categorical variable u equivalent to a latent class variable c
  • Marginal Effects
  • MCAR testing for frequency table
  • MCMC iteration convergence in Mplus
  • Measurement Error In A Single Indicator
  • Mediation: Index of moderated mediation
  • Mediation: Indirect effect insignificant while both paths significant
  • Mediation: Effects using a 4-way decomposition
  • Mediation: Effects with ordinal outcome
  • Mediation: multiple mediators
  • Mediation: treatment of categorical mediator
  • Missing data indicator creation
  • Missing on x's
  • Missingness fraction
  • MOD in MODEL INDIRECT
  • Moderated mediation short
  • Moderated mediation simulation
  • Mplus Command Line FAQ
  • Multilevel discrete-time survival analysis
  • Multilevel explained variance – fixed and random
  • Multiple cohort GMM
  • Multiple group analysis using multivariate format: A DSEM Example
  • Multiple imputation using Bayes and ML
  • Multiple Imputation versus FIML
  • N vs N-1
  • Non-linear growth modeling - cosine
  • Non-recursive model not consistent
  • Numerical integration range
  • Odds ratio confidence interval from logOR estimate and SE
  • Odds ratio interpretation for categorical distal outcomes using DCAT
  • Odds ratio interpretation with a nominal DV in multinomial logistic regression
  • Odds ratios from thresholds of binary distal outcomes in mixtures
  • Odds ratios with asterisks and 999 for c ON x
  • Parallel process growth mixture model
  • Pause during Mplus analysis
  • Probabilities for nominal latent class indicators
  • Propensity score
  • R-square by McFadden
  • Random coefficient regression
  • Random variance - logv
  • Reciprocal interaction with categorical and continuous DVs inadmissible using ML
  • Reference group change in multiple-group scalar invariance
  • Regressing on a residual
  • Reliability - Omega coefficient in Mplus
  • Reliability - Cronbach's alpha
  • Reliability - binary and ordinal items
  • RI-CLPM Hamaker example
  • Saddle point
  • Saddle point technical documentation
  • Simple slopes testing
  • Skewness and kurtosis
  • Standardization in growth models
  • Standardized coefficient greater than 1
  • Standardized coefficient can have different significance than unstandardized
  • Standardized estimates for nominal, count and survival variables
  • Standardized estimates using DSEM
  • Standardized estimates with random slopes
  • TECH1 without analysis
  • TECH8 – negative ABS changes
  • Testing 1 versus 2 factors
  • Testing factor models using MLR diff test
  • Testing of factor corr=1
  • TLI fit index: Unusual values
  • The variance of a dependent variable as a function of latent variables that have an interaction is discussed in Mooijaart and Satorra
  • Threshold placement in multilevel mixtures
  • Twolevel regression with singular between covariance matrix
  • Two-level vs single-level WLSMV
  • Two-part estimated means
  • UG ex11.5 imputation clarification
  • u-star scores
  • WARNING One or more individual-level variables have no within-cluster variance
  • Zero cells