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 aprile benner posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 9:01 am
Say I am running two unrelated regressions in mplus:

y1 ON x1 ;
y2 ON x2 ;

If I run these two regressions in a single mplus model, I know the model will have a single covariance matrix. Will running the two regressions in a single model also affect the coefficient estimates or standard errors? I wasn't sure how the assumptions of mplus worked in this regard.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 9:14 am
The default in Mplus is to covary the residuals of y1 and y2. If you don't want this, you can fix it at zero as follows:

y1 WITH y2@0;
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