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 Gretchen Buchanan posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 11:03 am
Drs. Muthen,

I received the following error message:

978 perturbed starting value run(s) did not converge or were rejected...

300 perturbed starting value run(s)...

THE MODEL ESTIMATION DID NOT TERMINATE NORMALLY DUE TO AN INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF E STEPS. INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MITERATIONS. ESTIMATES CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

The DV and the indicators in the latent IV are moderately correlated (.35-.66). I used this model with a different DV and it ran just fine. Is this the problem or can you see something else being the problem?

ANALYSIS: ESTIMATOR IS MLR;
TYPE = COMPLEX MIXTURE;
STARTS = 1000 300;
PROCESSORS = 4;
ITERATIONS = 20000;
MITERATIONS = 20000;

MODEL:
%OVERALL%
chrnctrl BY OACA_ART OACC_ARt ODC_ARt OVC_ARt;
!covariance for identification
OACC_ART WITH OACA_ART;
chrnctrl ON CLINWRR C_PERWH (reg_gen);
C_PERWH CLINWRR;
%C#1%
[chrnctrl] (m_1);
chrnctrl OVC_ARt@.001;
chrnctrl ON CLINWRR (reg1);
%C#2%
[chrnctrl] (m_2);
chrnctrl@.001 OVC_ARt@.001;
chrnctrl ON CLINWRR (reg2);
%C#3%
[chrnctrl] (m_3);
chrnctrl OVC_ARt@.001;
chrnctrl ON CLINWRR (reg3);
%C#4%
[chrnctrl] (m_4);
chrnctrl OVC_ARt@.001;
chrnctrl ON CLINWRR (reg4);
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