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 Jon Heron posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 - 8:35 am
Hi,

could you tell me if Mplus has a command to apply importance weights.

This would be equivalent to -iweight- in Stata or -caseweight- in Latent Gold.

I have 960 cases, and 4 rows per subject with my weighting summing to 1 within subject.

If I use the weight variable as a sampling weight, then the weights are rescaled such that my sample appears to be 3840 (i.e. the number of rows in my dataset).


many thanks, Jon
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Monday, August 01, 2011 - 10:45 am
Would the FREQWEIGHT option help you? See the user's guide for a description.
 Jon Heron posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 1:00 am
Hi Linda,

looks like FREQWEIGHT requires the weights to be integers, whilst my weights are fractions and sum to one within each individual.
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 6:08 am
Then we can't help you at this time.
 Jon Heron posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 11:03 pm
Hi Linda,

that's a shame.
I'll have to put it on my list for Santa


thanks, Jon
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