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 Janna Williams-Pitts posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 6:02 pm
Hello,

I am very new to Mplus so I apologize if this is a silly question. I'm doing path analysis, have coded and account for missing data using SPSS. When I run my model in Mplus, my n size decreases significantly (more than half). I ran the model in SPSS (just doing regression analysis) and the n size was closer to what it was supposed to be. I'm doing secondary data analysis- n= 15,000 but when I run the model n= 6,000. Any ideas on why the n size decreases so much when I run the model in Mplus? Any suggestions for trouble shooting this issue? Thank you so much!
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 6:51 am
I suspect you have blanks in your data set. SPSS seems to use blanks for missing data. This is not allowed with free format data.
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