Mplus VERSION 6
MUTHEN & MUTHEN
04/22/2010 6:12 PM
INPUT INSTRUCTIONS
TITLE: this is an example of a CFA with
categorical factor indicators
DATA: FILE IS ex5.2.dat;
VARIABLE: NAMES ARE u1-u6;
CATEGORICAL ARE u1-u6;
MODEL: f1 BY u1-u3;
f2 BY u4-u6;
INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY
this is an example of a CFA with
categorical factor indicators
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS
Number of groups 1
Number of observations 500
Number of dependent variables 6
Number of independent variables 0
Number of continuous latent variables 2
Observed dependent variables
Binary and ordered categorical (ordinal)
U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U6
Continuous latent variables
F1 F2
Estimator WLSMV
Maximum number of iterations 1000
Convergence criterion 0.500D-04
Maximum number of steepest descent iterations 20
Parameterization DELTA
Input data file(s)
ex5.2.dat
Input data format FREE
UNIVARIATE PROPORTIONS AND COUNTS FOR CATEGORICAL VARIABLES
U1
Category 1 0.504 252.000
Category 2 0.496 248.000
U2
Category 1 0.506 253.000
Category 2 0.494 247.000
U3
Category 1 0.496 248.000
Category 2 0.504 252.000
U4
Category 1 0.524 262.000
Category 2 0.476 238.000
U5
Category 1 0.508 254.000
Category 2 0.492 246.000
U6
Category 1 0.510 255.000
Category 2 0.490 245.000
THE MODEL ESTIMATION TERMINATED NORMALLY
TESTS OF MODEL FIT
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit
Value 5.482*
Degrees of Freedom 8
P-Value 0.7051
* The chi-square value for MLM, MLMV, MLR, ULSMV, WLSM and WLSMV cannot be used
for chi-square difference testing in the regular way. MLM, MLR and WLSM
chi-square difference testing is described on the Mplus website. MLMV, WLSMV,
and ULSMV difference testing is done using the DIFFTEST option.
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit for the Baseline Model
Value 2808.627
Degrees of Freedom 15
P-Value 0.0000
CFI/TLI
CFI 1.000
TLI 1.002
Number of Free Parameters 13
RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error Of Approximation)
Estimate 0.000
WRMR (Weighted Root Mean Square Residual)
Value 0.342
MODEL RESULTS
Two-Tailed
Estimate S.E. Est./S.E. P-Value
F1 BY
U1 1.000 0.000 999.000 999.000
U2 1.067 0.043 24.661 0.000
U3 1.001 0.039 25.913 0.000
F2 BY
U4 1.000 0.000 999.000 999.000
U5 1.109 0.054 20.482 0.000
U6 1.030 0.047 21.988 0.000
F2 WITH
F1 -0.021 0.049 -0.432 0.666
Thresholds
U1$1 0.010 0.056 0.179 0.858
U2$1 0.015 0.056 0.268 0.788
U3$1 -0.010 0.056 -0.179 0.858
U4$1 0.060 0.056 1.073 0.283
U5$1 0.020 0.056 0.358 0.721
U6$1 0.025 0.056 0.447 0.655
Variances
F1 0.800 0.046 17.439 0.000
F2 0.736 0.052 14.099 0.000
R-SQUARE
Observed Residual
Variable Estimate Variance
U1 0.800 0.200
U2 0.912 0.088
U3 0.802 0.198
U4 0.736 0.264
U5 0.906 0.094
U6 0.781 0.219
QUALITY OF NUMERICAL RESULTS
Condition Number for the Information Matrix 0.200E-01
(ratio of smallest to largest eigenvalue)
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