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 Sung Kim posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 6:29 am
I am doing a path analysis and my data are not multivariate normal and have some missing (slightly less than 10%). I was trying to use MLM (Satorra-Bentler chi-square), but Mplus required to use LISTWISE=ON option.

Why is that required? Is there any article to support and articulate the listwise deletion when MLM is used? Thanks.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 8:20 am
See the Yuan and Bentler paper. Missing data estimation has not been developed for MLM. You can use MLR instead if you don't want listwise deletion.
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