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 Metin Ozdemir posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 4:26 am
I have a simple model where I test stability only for a variable measured at two time points.

I have 268 cases at Time 1 and 242 cases at Time 2. If I use listwise deletion, I would have 227 cases in total.

When I estimate the model (Time2 ON Time1), the model constantly give me the sample size of 227. Shouldn't I have 268 cases because of the default missing data estimation in MPlus?

I tested the same model with different variables, and I have no such problem.

Do you have any idea about how to solve this issue?

Thanks
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 6:52 am
Your printout should say at least 268 cases with the default missing data handling in Mplus (unless you are using a very old version). Why don't you request PATTERNS in the OUTPUT command to see your missing situation.
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