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Covariances with multiple time varyin... |
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mike parent posted on Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 8:46 am
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Hello, I'm building a model but I wasn't able to find an example in the manual or handouts with multiple time-varying covariates. I wanted to make sure I have the covariances set up correctly. I have 5 waves 1 time-invariant covariant (TIC) 3 time-varying covariants (TVC1-TVC3) collected at all 5 waves 1 DV collected at all 5 waves Based on Topic 3's handouts, I *think* I should be setting the covariances up so that I have covariances 1- within each TVC across time, and 2- across TVCs within time, and 3- every TVC with the TIC But NOT across measure and time (e.g., not TVC1_time1 with TVC2_time4). Is this a correct understanding of setting up the covariances in a model with more than one TVC, or am I going astray? Thanks! |
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All covariates are correlated as the default by Mplus (a particular TVC at one time point is considered a different covariate than the same TVC at a different time point). Just don't mention their parameters and this will occur (Mplus then treats them as "x" variables). |
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