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 Bin Ling posted on Saturday, November 04, 2017 - 9:47 pm
Dear professor Muthen
I want to test the discriminant validity in a multilevel framework which has two level-1 variables and two level-2 variables.So the four cross-level factor model is our hypothesized model. I write the Mplus code for testing discriminant validity. I do not know whether it is accurate for the test.
Could you give me a help. thank you.
In the following code, AC and CE are level-1 variables and CL and CI are level-2 variables.

TITLE: This is Multilevel CFA for discriminant validity

DATA: FILE IS EmpDataCFA.csv;

VARIABLE: NAMES ARE group JI1 JI2 JI3 AC1 AC2 AC3 CE1 CE2 CE3
CI1 CI2 CI3 CL1 CL2 CL3 CL4 CL5;
USEVAR ARE group AC1-AC3 CE1-CE3 CI1-CI3 CL1-CL5;
WITHIN IS AC1-AC3 CE1-CE3;
CLUSTER = group;

ANALYSIS: TYPE IS GENERAL TWOLEVEL;
ESTIMATOR=ml;


MODEL:
%WITHIN%

ACW BY AC1-AC3;
CEW BY CE1-CE3;
CIW BY CI1-CI3;
CLW BY CL1-CL5;


%BETWEEN%

CIB BY CI1-CI3;
CLB BY CL1-CL5;
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Sunday, November 05, 2017 - 1:39 pm
Maybe someone on SEMNET has Mplus code for this.
 Bin Ling posted on Sunday, November 05, 2017 - 6:37 pm
But i do not know how to use SEMNET. Could you tell me the code is right or wrong.
thank you very much.
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 2:12 pm
Just google SEMNET and you will find out how.
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