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Hi, I am running an LPA with 10 items. The 10 items are peer nominations for specific behavioral indicators (e.g., shy, sad etc.). There are 3913 subjects in the databse and the peer nominations are highly skewed. The program runs, but I get the error below. How can I fix it? ANDOM STARTS RESULTS RANKED FROM THE BEST TO THE WORST LOGLIKELIHOOD VALUES Final stage loglikelihood values at local maxima, seeds, and initial stage start numbers: 50 perturbed starting value run(s) did not converge. THE MODEL ESTIMATION DID NOT TERMINATE NORMALLY DUE TO AN INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF E STEPS. INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MITERATIONS. ESTIMATES CANNOT BE TRUSTED. WARNING: WHEN ESTIMATING A MODEL WITH MORE THAN TWO CLASSES, IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RANDOM STARTS USING THE STARTS OPTION TO AVOID LOCAL MAXIMA. |
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You can try increasing your random starts to, for example, STARTS=1000 250; If you continue to have problems, please send your output and license number to support@statmodel.com. |
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