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Dear Mplus.
I have longitudinal data of employees' attitudes, and I wish to run a latent class growth analysis on different types development curves, which I have managed.
However, I have a few onset variables which represent an event that employees' experience, and I wish each employee's attitude trajectory to start when this variable has the value 1. This onset variable goes from 0-10. For some it stops earlier, depending on how far out in the trajectory they experience the event. Thus, an employee who experiences a change event at time 3, will have the value 1 there, and then end at 7.
Is this possible in Mplus? Which example can I read for understanding how to prepare the syntax?
Best regards
Felix |
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| Perhaps you can simply use time score = 0 at the time the employee has the onset value 1. |
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Hi Bengt.
Thank you for your reply on this. I discussed it also with a colleague, and we think this may be the best way to go on about it.
I was also told to then "move" data with the LOOP command. Could you refer to any examples with syntax on how I use the loop command in Mplus?
Best regards
Felix |
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