See the UG Monte Carlo version of ex9.23 on our website (see Mplus User's Guide/Examples).
Eunsoo Lee posted on Friday, November 11, 2016 - 8:32 pm
Thanks a lot! I found the monte carlo version of ex9.23 and it was helpful. However, I am trying to set the level-3 ICC for y1-y4 to a value around .05. Can I manipulate ICC in mplus? Thank you!
MONTECARLO: NAMES ARE y1-y4 w z; NOBSERVATIONS = 1200; NREP = 1; SEED = 58459; NCSIZES = 1[1]; CSIZES = 30[10(4)]; WITHIN = ; BETWEEN = (level2)w (level3) z; ANALYSIS: TYPE = THREELEVEL; MODEL POPULATION: %WITHIN% iw sw | y1@0y2@1y3@2y4@3; iw*1; sw*.2; iw with sw*0; y1-y4*.5; %BETWEEN level2% w@1; ib2 sb2 | y1@0y2@1y3@2y4@3; ib2 ON w*.4; sb2 ON w*.2; ib2*.5 sb2*.2; ib2 with sb2*0; y1-y4*.45; %BETWEEN level3% z@1; ib3 sb3 | y1@0y2@1y3@2y4@3; ib3 ON z*.5; sb3 ON z*.3; y1-y4*.05; ib3*.5 sb3*.3]; [y1-y4@0];