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 Xu, Man posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 5:15 am
Hello, I am trying to cacluate a effect size, but apparently I couldn't get it run. I think it's the labeling that I used caused the problem. Could you help out please? Thank you very much!

MODEL:
ZST37Q01 ON ZPVEPS(b1)
ZPVISI(b2)
ZPVUSE(b3);

ZPVEPS(var1);
ZPVISI(var2);
ZPVUSE(var3);
ZST37Q01(Theta);

MODEL CONSTRAINT:

new(ES1);
ES = b1*(2*sqrt(var1)/sqrt(var1*b1**2+Theta));
 Xu, Man posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 5:29 am
Sorry, it's a labeling and typing mistake indeed. I have corrected it to be

ES1 = b1*(sqrt(var1)/sqrt(var1*b1**2+Theta)

But the estimate for ES1 is 0.476, whereas the STDYX standardization output is 0.529, and their t values are 17.190 and 13.814.

Could you advice me why is this please? Thanks!
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:08 pm
I think your problem is that theta is a residual variance not a variance.
 Xu, Man posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 1:17 pm
Oh i see. thank you. i forgot to add explained variances of the other two variables. i will take another try.
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