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Recent Papers
Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T. & Keijsers, L. (2025).
Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling with Cycles
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32(2), 264-286. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2024.2406510 (
Download Supplementary Material
). See also
Mplus Web Talk 7
.
Muthén, B. (2025).
Mplus: An Overview of its Unique Analysis Capabilities
, Version 3. Forthcoming in the Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Volume Three.
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2024).
Practical aspects of dynamic structural equation models
. Technical Report. Version 4. December 2, 2024.
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2024).
Continuous Time Dynamic Structural Equation Models
. Version 5. October 18, 2024.
Asparouhov, T, & Muthén, B. (2024).
Covariance of random effects in multilevel modeling
. Mplus Web Notes: No. 24. October 17, 2024.
Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T. & Shiffman, S. (2024).
Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling with Floor Effects. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/met0000720
Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T. & Witkiewitz, K. (2024).
Cross-lagged panel modeling with binary and ordinal outcomes
. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/met0000701 (
Supplementary Materials
).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2024).
Penalized structural equation models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 31(3), 429–454. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2023.2263913. (
Supplementary Materials
).
Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2024).
Can cross-lagged panel modeling be relied on to establish cross-lagged effects? The case of contemporaneous and reciprocal effects
. Psychological Methods. DOI: 10.1037/met0000661 (
Supplementary Materials
).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023).
Multiple group alignment for exploratory and structural equation models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30(2), 169-191. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2127100
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2023).
Residual Structural Equation Models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30, 1-31. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2022.2074422
Muthén, B. & Asparouhov, T. (2022).
Latent transition analysis with random intercepts (RI-LTA)
. Psychological Methods, 27(1), 1–16. DOI: 10.1037/met0000370. Scripts are available on our
RI-LTA
page.
Hamaker, E.L., Asparouhov, T, & Muthén, B. (2021).
Dynamic structural equation modeling as a combination of time series modeling, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling
. To be published as Chapter 31 in: The Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling (2nd edition); Rick H. Hoyle (Ed.); Publisher: Guilford Press. (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021).
Advances in Bayesian model fit evaluation for structural equation models
, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2020.1764360
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021).
Bayesian estimation of single and multilevel models with latent variable interactions
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:2, 314-328, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2020.1761808 (
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*NOTE: Scripts refer to section numbers from the Mplus Web Note 23 version of this paper that are not present in the current version.).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2021).
Expanding the Bayesian structural equation, multilevel and mixture models to Logit, negative-binomial and nominal variables
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28:4, 622-637, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2021.1878896 (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2020).
Comparison of models for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(2) 275-297, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2019.1626733 (
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).
Hamaker, E. L., & Muthén, B. (2020).
The fixed versus random effects debate and how it relates to centering in multilevel modeling
. Psychological Methods, 25(3), 365–379. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000239 (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2019).
Nesting and equivalence testing for structural equation models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26:2, 302-309, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1513795. (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2019).
Latent variable centering of predictors and mediators in multilevel and time-series models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26, 119-142. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2018.1511375 (
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).
Asparouhov, T., Hamaker, E.L. & Muthen, B. (2018).
Dynamic structural equation models
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25:3, 359-388, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2017.1406803 (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2018).
Continuous - Time Survival Analysis in Mplus
. Version 3. June 29, 2018. (
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).
Asparouhov, T. & Muthén, B. (2018).
SRMR in Mplus
. Technical Report. May 2, 2018.
Hamaker, E.L., Asparouhov, T., Brose, A., Schmiedek, F. & Muthen, B. (2018).
At the frontiers of modeling intensive longitudinal data: Dynamic structural equation models for the affective measurements from the COGITO study
. Multivariate Behavioral Research, DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1446819
Schultzberg, M. & Muthén, B. (2018).
Number of subjects and time points needed for multilevel time series analysis: A simulation study of dynamic structural equation modeling
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25:4, 495-515, DOI:10.1080/10705511.2017.1392862. (
Supplementary material
). Paper referred to in Part 7 of the August 18 DSEM workshop.
Asparouhov, T., Hamaker, E.L. & Muthen, B. (2017).
Dynamic Latent Class Analysis
. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 24:2, 257-269, DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2016.1253479
Asparouhov, T, & Muthén, B. (2017).
Prior-Posterior Predictive P-values
. Mplus Web Notes: No. 22. April 27, 2017. Version 2. (
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).
Version 7 papers
.