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 Dylan John posted on Monday, June 05, 2017 - 10:24 am
Could someone please look at my syntax and let me know if this is correct. This specific analysis is investigating a 3-latent profile model using 4 continuous indicator variables. Does this seem correct or am I missing anything?



Data:
FILE IS "H:\MPlus Analysis with Weights\SAS_with_weights_not_standardized.txt";
Variable:
NAMES ARE
PERSRUK
T1_ADHD
T2_ADHD
T3_ADHD
T1_INT
T1_CON
T1_IND
T2_INT
T2_CON
T2_IND
T3_INT
T3_CON
T3_IND
weight;
Usevariables are
T1_ADHD
T1_INT
T1_CON
T1_IND;
classes = c(3);
weight is weight;
Analysis:
Type=mixture;
MODEL:
%C#1%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];

%C#2%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];

%C#3%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Monday, June 05, 2017 - 3:49 pm
Correct, but you don't need to include

%C#1%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];

%C#2%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];

%C#3%
[T1_ADHD T1_INT T1_CON T1_IND];

because this variation in the means is the default.
 Dylan John posted on Monday, June 05, 2017 - 4:57 pm
Thank you!

As an aside, could you briefly explain the process of bootstrap likelihood ratio testing to find the best fitting model?
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Monday, June 05, 2017 - 6:08 pm
The Bollen-Stein 1992 paper is a start - SEMNET is good for this kind of topic.
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