Mplus Web Talk No. 9 - Using Mplus To Investigate Direct Effects in Latent Class Analysis, October 14, 2025.

The web talk pdf has 58 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 1 hour, 31 minutes.

• Segment 1, (slides 1-2), 4 minutes:

  Introduction, Outline

  
  
• Segment 2, (slides 3-7), 10 minutes:

  Background, Antisocial Behavior Example

  
  
• Segment 3, (slides 8-14), 18 minutes:

  Searching for Direct Effects, Different Approaches, Penalized SEM (PSEM)

  
  
• Segment 4, (slides 15-25), 17 minutes:

  ASB Example (Reduced Version), Latent Classes and C ON X Results

  
  
• Segment 5, (slides 26-37), 15 minutes:

  Evaluating Direct Effects, Direct Effects Results, Calculator

  
  
• Segment 6, (slides 38-43), 11 minutes:

  Class-Varying Direct Effects, PSEM DIFF Priors, ALIGN Option

  
  
• Segment 7, (slides 44-57), 18 minutes:

  Multistep Analysis with Direct Effects and Distal Outcomes, Recap and Further Research

  
  

Supplemental Materials

• Web Talk 9 Inputs, Outputs and Data
  
  
• Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2025). Methodological Advances with Penalized Structural Equation Models, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32:4, 688-716. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2024.2425996
  
  

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