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 Amy Christie posted on Friday, November 02, 2012 - 10:56 am
Hi there,
I am running a parallel process model, with the intercept of the second process centered on the final time point. I would like to test whether the interaction between an exogenous variable (x) and the slope of the first process (s1) predicts the intercept and slope of the second process. I created an interaction term between s1 and x using the XWITH command. The model runs well, but does not provide fit statistics typical with latent growth models (i.e., without including the interaction). Is it no longer a LGM (given the TYPE = RANDOM)? Are these analyses appropriate? Below is my syntax.
Many thanks.

VARIABLE:
NAMES ARE p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 X;
USEVARIABLES ARE p1 p2 p3 p4
p5 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 X;
MISSING ARE p1 p2 p3 p4
p5 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 X (9999);
ANALYSIS: TYPE = RANDOM
MODEL:
i1 s1 | p1@0 p2@1 p3@2 p4@3 p5@4;
i2 s2 | d1@-4 d2@-3 d3@-2 d4@-1 d5@0;
Modxs1 | X XWITH s1;
s2 ON i1 s1 x Modxs1;
i2 ON i1 s1 x Modxs1;
p1 with d1;
p2 with d2;
p3 with d3;
p4 with d4;
p5 with d5;
OUTPUT:
STAND TECH1 TECH3 TECH4;
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, November 02, 2012 - 1:54 pm
When means, variances, and covariances are not sufficient statistics for model estimation, chi-square and related fit statistics are not available. You can look at the fit before you add the interaction. See the FAQ Latent Variable Interactions on the website.
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