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 Jake Lant posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 2:54 pm
I am trying to conduct moderation analyses (DV: continuous, IVs: Categorical, Continuous, Categorical*Continuous) on Mplus. The variables are non normal, and a good percentage of them are missing. This is for an assignment, so I am supposed to be getting these on the output: 3 estimates, S. E.s, and p-values (no constant). I need to rerun these and get the same numbers as the output. They are close on the ones I've tried but not quite there. I have tried to run different robust analyses just to get familiarized with the program but none of it seems to match the output I got (no ts p-values).

Would anyone mind helping me figure out which commands would render an output with "estimate", "S. E.", "t", and a "p-value"? We were told we would need to use a robust estimator, which is why I've tried the robust analyses, by the way.

Thank you in advance for any input that may clarify this.

-Jake
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 - 10:52 am
You should use DEFINE to create the interaction term. Your model would be

y ON x1 x2 x1x2;

All of the results are shown automatically in the output.

Be sure you have the same estimator as the output and the same sample statistics.
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