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 Joseph Coughlan posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 4:21 am
Hi

I have dyadic data with n=1024 customers linked specifically to 97 employees so a 1:n rather than 1:1. The samples are imbalanced.

I have measured multiple behavioral constructs for each customer and employee. In this analysis I am focusing on the latent variables A, B and C.

A is measured at the customer level with eight items. B and C are measured at the employee level with four items.

I am presuming that a multi-level model using customers at the BETWEEN level and employees at the WITHIN level can be used to model this.

An extract from my MPlus code is:

CLUSTER IS y4; ! The employee number
%WITHIN%
A by a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8;
%BETWEEN%
B by b1 b2 b3 b4;
C by c1 c2 c3 c4;
C ON B;
Queries:
1. How then do I model A ON B?

I presume just having A ON B will work in the BETWEEN level.

Do I also set up A as a WITHIN variable (say A_E) and regress A_E ON B? Are there any variances or means that need to be fixed in this case for this to run?

2. I have a few occasions where the variance of a specific item (such as a2) at customer level is zero for specific employees. Is the only solution to remove all this particular employee-customer pairings?

Thank you in advance
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 6:41 pm
1. You create a between-level version of A:

%Between%
AB BY a1-a8;

and then add AB ON B on Between.

2. First see what the output says.
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