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 Christopher Bratt posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:21 am
Hi

I have no success finding an option I believed Mplus had: the ability to estimate and quantify the effect of a continuous moderator on a regression (or a correlation)

In LCA, Mplus can estimate the effect of latent classes on associations between two variables. I would like to have the possibility to estimate moderation for a non-categorical variable, having

(1) a quantification of its effect on the association between two variables

(2) being able to develop a model with longitudinal data and three-wave data where the influence of the moderator is estimated at all three measurements within one model.

Is that possible. If so, how do I proceed?

Thanks for any help.

Christopher Bratt
 Christopher Bratt posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 4:24 am
I might add... I know of the option to estimate interaction effects even between two latents (XWITH).

That is an alternative. But it is not quite what I was hoping for when testing the moderating effect of a continuous variable.

Regards,
Christopher
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 7:55 am
Ex5.23 uses the continuous variable "pihat" to moderate a correlation in a "QTL" analysis.

Moderating a regression slope gets back to the usual interactions between variables.
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