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 Hongguo Wei posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 10:25 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,

I am running multilevel SEM but the model cannot converge in Mplus. I am wondering if I can save multilevel factor analysis results first, and then use the saved factors for multilevel analysis? I tried and the results seem fine, but I am not sure if there is any literature support.

Thank you!
Hong
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 5:53 pm
I would not recommend it. We have SEM to avoid such a 2-step approach. Instead, explore why it doesn't converge.
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