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 Qi posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - 4:15 pm
Dr. Muthén,

Normally if the MGMM can converge normally under the MLR estimator, a "H0 Scaling Correction Factor for MLR" would be given; however when I ran MGMM using random starts "starts = 100 10", I got the following warning message and I didn't get the correction factor. Is it because the results were based on MLF that there was no correction factor? Does it mean results by MLF estimator should not be trusted? How can I help the model converge?

Thanks!
Qi

WARNING: THE BEST LOGLIKELIHOOD VALUE WAS NOT REPLICATED. THE SOLUTION MAY NOT BE TRUSTWORTHY DUE TO LOCAL MAXIMA. INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RANDOM STARTS.

THE MODEL ESTIMATION HAS REACHED A SADDLE POINT OR A POINT WHERE THE OBSERVED AND THE EXPECTED INFORMATION MATRICES DO NOT MATCH.
THE CONDITION NUMBER IS -0.277D-04.
THE PROBLEM MAY ALSO BE RESOLVED BY DECREASING THE VALUE OF THE MCONVERGENCE OR LOGCRITERION OPTIONS.

THE STANDARD ERRORS OF THE MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATES COULD NOT BE COMPUTED. THIS IS OFTEN DUE TO THE STARTING VALUES BUT MAY ALSO BE AN INDICATION OF MODEL NONIDENTIFICATION. CHANGE YOUR MODEL AND/OR STARTING VALUES. PROBLEM INVOLVING PARAMETER 19.

RESULTS ARE PRESENTED FOR THE MLF ESTIMATOR.
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