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 jonas helao posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - 4:05 am
Dear,

Is it correct to say that this uses theta parameterization?

DATA:
FILE = three.dat;

VARIABLE:
NAMES = a1-a172;
CATEGORICAL = a2-a172;
USEVARIABLES = a1-a172;
MISSING = ALL(99);
IDVARIABLE = a1;

ANALYSIS:
ESTIMATOR = ML;

MODEL:
theta1 by a60-a111*
a52-a59* (a1-a8);
theta2 by a2-a9* (a1-a8)
a10-a17* (a9-a16)
a18-a51*;
theta3 by a112-a119* (a9-a16)
a120-a172*;
theta1-theta3@1;

[a52$1-a59$1] (b1-b8);
[a2$1-a9$1] (b1-b8);
[a10$1-a17$1] (b9-b16);
[a112$1-a119$1] (b9-b16);

PLOT:
TYPE = PLOT1 PLOT2 PLOT3;

SAVEDATA:
SAVE = FSCORES;
FILE = three.dat;
 jonas helao posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - 6:56 am
Edit: I used this syntax with 7.3 (some years ago).
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - 2:03 pm
Yes, ML with categorical indicators uses Theta parametrization.
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