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 Clio Berry posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 7:20 am
Hi,

How can I look at the effects of gender and age on my model? If I am interested in the effects on both the fit of the measurement model (CFA) and the structural model paths (3 latent variables plus 4 predictors), then is the only option to look at a separate model for males/famales and older/younger?

What other options would there be?

Any thoughts from anyone much appreciated.

Thank you.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, July 27, 2012 - 10:26 am
You can compare the standardized coefficients.
 Clio Berry posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 1:51 am
Thanks Linda- just to check, do you mean compare the standardised coefficients across groups in multigroup modelling?

Best wishes,

Clio.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 - 8:44 am
Standardized coefficients should not be compared across groups because the standardization is done using different standard deviations for each group.
 Clio Berry posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 4:07 am
Thanks Linda, does this mean that there is no way to compare the magnitude of the effect of a predictor/covariate across groups?

Thank you,

Clio.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 10:13 am
The variables are on the same scale so you can compare the raw coefficients across groups. You can test their equality using either a chi-square difference test or MODEL TEST.
 Clio Berry posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 12:43 am
Thanks Linda
 yobie lam  posted on Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 10:12 pm
Hi,

If i wanna to test the effect of a demo variable (3 levels), as an indicator, in the model with good model fit indices, does it correct to use the following command?
in fact, i wanna to see whether there is an effect of demo on M & DV if it happened.

Categorical = demo;
estimator = mlr;

model:
IV by v1 v2 v3 v4;
DV by v5 v6;
M by v7 v8;

M on IV;
DV on M IV;
demo on IV;

Thank you very much.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 9:47 am
If you want to see the effect of demo on m and dv you would say

m dv ON demo;
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