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 amna khalid posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 1:03 pm
Hi,

I am trying to run CFI on a scale in MPlus in which an item is used to compute two different sub-scales using reverse scoring and forward scoring. When I run the analysis in Mplus it gives me this warning
WARNING: THE SAMPLE COVARIANCE IS SINGULAR. THE SAMPLE CORRELATION OF ARSQ5 AND ARSQ5R IS -1.000. NO CONVERGENCE. NUMBER OF ITERATIONS EXCEEDED.

I am using the following input command.

F1 by ARSQ3 ARSQ7R ARSQ8 ARSQ10 ARSQ17R;
F2 BY ARSQ1 ARSQ4 ARSQ9 ARSQ14;
F3 BY ARSQ5R ARSQ6 ARSQ11 ARSQ15;
F4 BY ARSQ2 ARSQ5 ARSQ12 ARSQ13 ARSQ16;
F5 by F1-F4;


Kindly advice.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 1:38 pm
You cannot use two variables in an analysis that have a correlation of one or minus one.
 amna khalid posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 8:50 am
Thank you for your reply. Is there a way to fix this correlation. I have tried incorporating this command ARSQ5 with ARSQ5R @0 but still getting the same warning.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 9:27 am
You need to use just one of the variables. Fixing the correlation to zero is not the solution.
 Demet Kara posted on Friday, November 10, 2017 - 5:52 am
Hi,

I am trying to run a simple CFA with two factors but I had a similar problem with the following message:

WARNING: THE SAMPLE COVARIANCE OF THE DEPENDENT VARIABLES IS SINGULAR. PROBLEM INVOLVING VARIABLE TASC12.

NO CONVERGENCE. NUMBER OF ITERATIONS EXCEEDED.

I have tried to omit the item called "TASC12" but this time the same message was appeared for another one.

How can I fix this?

Thank you very much.
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Friday, November 10, 2017 - 4:48 pm
Send your output and data to Support along with your license number.
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