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 Maddy Ong posted on Saturday, September 03, 2016 - 1:25 pm
I have an interaction in my model between two latent variables.

xy | x XWITH y;

I am only interested in the effect of my interaction term (xy) on 3 dependent variables. Theoretically, I don't care and do not hypothesize about the effects of the two latent variables (x and y) on the 3 dependent variables. Do I still need to model the two original latent variables, or do I just model the interaction term?

z1 on x y xy;
z2 on x y xy;
z3 on x y xy;

OR

z1 on xy;
z2 on xy;
z3 on xy;
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Saturday, September 03, 2016 - 2:46 pm
You typically want to include the "main" effects as well.
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