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 daniel posted on Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 6:39 am
When indicators are all categorical or part of indicators are categorical, the estimators can be used in Mplus are WLS, WLSM, and WLSMV. In output there is Est./S.E. for each estimate. My question is what is (asymptotic) distribution of Est./S.E.? Can it be treated as standard normal or students t-distribution? If not, how to use that value to judge the significance of the estimate?

Could you give me any reference?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 7:34 am
Standard normal. See the following reference:

Muthén, B. & Satorra, A. (1995). Technical aspects of Muthén's LISCOMP approach to estimation of latent variable relations with a comprehensive measurement model. Psychometrika, 60, 489-503.
 Heike B. posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:13 am
Hello,

I am building a manifest path model with categorical variables using WLSMV, the variables had been skewed.

Can I derive a one-tailed p-value from the two-tailed p-values given in the MODEL RESULT section by deviding the two-tailed p-value through 2?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Heike
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 2:49 pm
You will need to look up the value of the ratio of the parameter estimate to its standard error in a z-table to obtain the p-value.
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