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 Daniel Paulson posted on Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 2:13 pm
Hi Drs. Muthen et al.,
I am running a CFA using MRL with 14 5-level indicators and N>700. I'd like to compare a revised model with 12 of those indicators to the original 14-item model. The MPlus output advises me not to use chi-square to compare models, and the DIFFTEST function does not work with the MRL estimator. Can you suggest a strategy to compare these to models?

Thank you
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 4:29 pm
I don't see a way you can get a statistical test of different in model fit for that situation; you need to have the same DVs (factor indicators). You could perhaps look at how factor determinacy differs across the models.
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