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Anonymous posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 10:15 am
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Dear Dr. Muthen, I am running a single group CFA with categorical observed indicators. My ultimate goal is to do a multiple group comparison. But first, I am trying to fit my model for each group. To do so, in mplus I just wrote Y ON X1-X5 and ran the model for each group seperately. The results produced factor loadings, thresholds, factor variance, and residual variance. My questions : 1- Do I need to constrain my thresholds in a single group CFA? 2- I did not get scale factors in my single group CFA. Do I need to specify scale factros and/or maybe constrain them? 3- In the output, I also did not see the factor mean. Shoud I specify it in my model? In general, could you please let me know what should I specify in my model for a single group CFA with categorical outcomes? |
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You should use the BY statement to specify a CFA model. See Example 5.2 in the Mplus User's Guide. 1. No. 2. No. They are fixed at one as the default. 3. Factor means are zero. |
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