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 Chris Weber posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 1:12 pm
Hello,

I have two outcome variables, which are both bimodal and continuous. I am trying to fit a two class mixture model:

NAMES ARE
DOLKEPT EFFORT
TOM d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6
d1xeyes d2xeyes d3xeyes
d4xeyes d5xeyes
d6xeyes;

USEVARIABLES ARE
DOLKEPT EFFORT;

CLASSES=c(2);

ANALYSIS:
TYPE=MIXTURE;
STARTS=100 20;

model:
%overall%

I get this error:

THE STANDARD ERRORS OF THE MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATES MAY NOT BE TRUSTWORTHY FOR SOME PARAMETERS DUE TO A NON-POSITIVE DEFINITE
FIRST-ORDER DERIVATIVE PRODUCT MATRIX. THIS MAY BE DUE TO THE STARTING
VALUES BUT MAY ALSO BE AN INDICATION OF MODEL NONIDENTIFICATION. THE
CONDITION NUMBER IS -0.101D-16. PROBLEM INVOLVING PARAMETER 2.

I've tried specifying my own starting values,as well as increasing the number of random starts, but haven't had any luck. Am I missing something? Are there parameter restrictions that should be made?

Thanks,
Chris
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 4:41 pm
This should work. Please send your full output and license number to support@statmodel.com.
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