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 patrick sturgis posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 2:42 am
I am doing a multiple imputation following example 11.5 in the user guide. I specified a file to be saved called GCimp*.dat. The model produces 10 imputed data files GCimp1.dat to GCimp10.dat but I do not get one labelled GCimplist.dat. It does produce a file called GCimp*.dat but I am not sure what this is. So the second input file cannot find the appropriate file to conduct the imputation. the command file I used is below. thanks for your help.

TITLE: two latent class growth analysis adults ;

DATA: FILE IS "mplus4.csv";
FORMAT IS free;

VARIABLE: NAMES ARE (removed to save space);

USEVARIABLES ARE AVOTE6 BVOTE6
CVOTE6 DVOTE6 EVOTE6 FVOTE6 gvote6 hvote6
ivote6 jvote6 KVOTE6 LVOTE6
MVOTE6 NVOTE6 sex oneorg twoplusorg private secmodern
party pardegree parnoqual
working petty othercls ;

MISSING ARE ALL (999);

DATA IMPUTATION:
IMPUTE = avote6-nvote6 (c);
NDATASETS = 10;
SAVE = "GCimp*.dat";
ANALYSIS: TYPE = BASIC;
OUTPUT: TECH8;
 Jon Heron posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 7:45 am
you might need to make one. save a small textfile containing this list:-

GCimp1.dat
GCimp2.dat
GCimp2.dat
GCimp3.dat
GCimp4.dat
GCimp5.dat
GCimp6.dat
GCimp7.dat
GCimp8.dat
GCimp9.dat
GCimp10.dat

and put it with the datafiles
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 9:37 am
If you are not using Version 6.12, please download it. If you are, please send the files to support@statmodel.com.
 patrick sturgis posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 9:39 am
I have done that and I just get an error message saying the file cannot be found. I've checked it over and over and the spelling is correct. I've also tried moving to another directory but still same message. Suggestions?
 Jon Heron posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 11:47 am
is your input file, your imputed data and your textfile all in the same directory?
 patrick sturgis posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 1:58 pm
all the files are in the same directory. I am using Mplus for Mac, I think it is 6.2 but I can't see how to check the version; there is no help menu. thanks again,

Patrick
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 3:29 pm
The version is printed at the top of the output.
 patrick sturgis posted on Saturday, September 15, 2012 - 2:43 am
version is 6.12 (Mac)
 patrick sturgis posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 12:07 am
Hi, do you have any advice on this? I'm still not getting any results. Thanks,

Patrick
 Jon Heron posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 12:26 am
can you paste a couple of lines of the textfile containing your list of datasets? I have a feeling something may be up with that.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 5:49 am
Pleases send your files to support@statmodel.com.
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