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 gibbon lab posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:30 am
I am running an SEM. Several estimates (e.g., ZTR12DISCA) have huge estimates of standard error. Below is part of the output. Is there anything wrong? Is it due to multicolinearity? Thanks.

THE MODEL ESTIMATION TERMINATED NORMALLY

MODEL RESULTS

Two-Tailed
Estimate S.E. Est./S.E. P-Value

T5NOWCAT ON
T4PRCONCAT 0.375 0.092 4.074 0.000
ZT12ENV -0.129 0.087 -1.497 0.134
ZT12FAM 0.165 0.364 0.453 0.650
ZTR12DISCA 0.001 301.047 0.000 1.000
DRD4BIN -0.084 0.145 -0.582 0.561
INT12DISC 0.272 0.112 2.422 0.015

T4PRCONC ON
ZT12ENV 0.072 0.058 1.236 0.217
ZT12FAM 0.256 0.061 4.185 0.000

ZTR12DIS WITH
ZT12ENV 0.000 19.827 0.000 1.000
ZT12FAM 0.000 526.781 0.000 1.000
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 10:16 am
This might also be due to the model being close to being not identified.
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