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 Sofie Heirweg posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 11:47 pm
I have a question concerning the use of latent variables at both the within and between level using multilevel SEM.

In my model statement, I define my latent variables using the following input:

%within%
TK BY TK1 TK2 TK3 TK4 TK5 TK6;
PL BY PL2 PL3 PL4 PL5;
MT BY MT1 MT2 MT3 MT4 MT5 MT6 MT7;
ZEPROD BY ZEPROD1 ZEPROD2 ZEPROD3;
ZEPROC BY ZEPROC1 ZEPROC2 ZEPROC3 ZEPROC4;

This works perfectly, but I need the same latent variables again at the between level. I want MPlus to use the latent structure as defined at the within level, as I want it to be based on individual scores rather than group means.

I tried it with the following ouput at the between level, but this is not working:

%between%
TKB BY TK1 TK2 TK3 TK4 TK5 TK6;
PLB BY PL2 PL3 PL4 PL5;
MTB BY MT1 MT2 MT3 MT4 MT5 MT6 MT7;
ZEPRODB BY ZEPROD1 ZEPROD2 ZEPROD3;
ZEPROCB BY ZEPROC1 ZEPROC2 ZEPROC3 ZEPROC4;
SE_CM BY SE_CM1 SE_CM2 SE_CM3 SE_CM4;


Could you please help me in figuring out how I should resolve this?

Thank you very much for your help!

Kind regards,
Sofie
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 9:18 am
This should work fine if you haven't put your factor indicators on the Within= or Between= lists.

If this doesn't help, send output to Support along with your license number.
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