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 john posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 - 1:41 pm
I've heard that Mplus 3.13 can accommodate within- and between-unit weights via various scaling options (e.g., Pfefferman et al., 1998).

How does one specify these options in Mplus (or is a default scaling option always used) ?

Is it possible to specify separate within- and between-unit weight variables ?

(Do you have an example with actual Mplus script ?).
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 9:39 am
To do this, first standardize the within weight variable so that the weights within each cluster sum to the cluster size. Then multiply the within weight variable by the between weight variable and use this new weight variable as the weight variable in the Mplus analysis. For further information, see:

http://statmodel.com/download/webnotes/MplusNote81.pdf
http://statmodel.com/download/asparouhovgmms.pdf
 john posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 9:54 am
Okay; thanks.

So there's no function / subcommand in Mplus that automatically makes these types of conversions ?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 10:15 am
No. Not at this time.
 deana desa posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 6:34 am
Can I know which methods of weighting (i.e., methods A, AI, B, BI, C and D)are currently available in Mplus for multilevel analysis?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 11:15 am
What are the methods A, AI, B, BI, C and D?
 deana desa posted on Friday, February 14, 2014 - 3:22 am
These are the weighting methods where they have different scaling constants as described in http://statmodel.com/download/webnotes/MplusNote81.pdf
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, February 14, 2014 - 11:26 am
It looks like Section 9 of that paper describes implementation in Mplus. I don't believe this has changed.
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