Mplus VERSION 3.0
MUTHEN & MUTHEN
03/29/2004 11:17 PM
INPUT INSTRUCTIONS
title: Study C
catstudyc.inp
montecarlo:
file is mcgrowth.dat;
names are y1-y4;
ngroups = 1;
nobs = 100;
nreps = 500;
seed = 598587;
categorical = y1-y4;
generate = y1-y4(1);
cutpoints = y1-y4(0);
analysis:
type = meanstructure;
parameterization = delta;
model:
i by y1-y4@1;
s by y1@0 y2@1 y3@2 y4@3;
i*.5; s*.1; s with i*0;
[i*.5 s*-.5];
[y1$1-y4$1@0];
{y1@1.0 y2*.913 y3*.745 y4*.598};
INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY
Study C
catstudyc.inp
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS
Number of groups 1
Number of observations 100
Number of replications
Requested 500
Completed 498
Value of seed 598587
Number of dependent variables 4
Number of independent variables 0
Number of continuous latent variables 2
Observed dependent variables
Binary and ordered categorical (ordinal)
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
Continuous latent variables
I S
Estimator WLSMV
Maximum number of iterations 1000
Convergence criterion 0.500D-04
Maximum number of steepest descent iterations 20
Parameterization DELTA
Input data file
mcgrowth.dat
Input data format FREE
POPULATION VALUES FOR DATA GENERATION
0.5 0 -.5 -1.0
1.0
.5 1.2
.5 .7 1.8
.5 .8 1.1 2.8
SAMPLE STATISTICS FOR THE FIRST REPLICATION
SAMPLE STATISTICS
Means/Intercepts/Thresholds
Y1$1 Y2$1 Y3$1 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________
1 -0.583 0.176 0.553 0.915
Covariances/Correlations/Residual Correlations
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
Y1
Y2 0.383
Y3 0.189 0.257
Y4 0.386 0.215 0.468
CHI-SQUARE P-VALUES
Expected Observed
0.990 0.994
0.980 0.988
0.950 0.952
0.900 0.904
0.800 0.825
0.700 0.727
0.500 0.516
0.300 0.305
0.200 0.195
0.100 0.106
0.050 0.054
0.020 0.026
0.010 0.018
MODEL RESULTS
ESTIMATES STANDARD ERRORS 95%
Average Std. Dev. Average Std. Dev. Cover
I BY
Y1 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
S BY
Y1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3 2.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4 3.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
S WITH
I -0.0106 0.1940 0.2103 0.2690 0.984
Means
I 0.5034 0.1351 0.1309 0.0045 0.940
S -0.5293 0.2000 0.2114 0.3258 0.930
Thresholds
Y1$1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2$1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y3$1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y4$1 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Variances
I 0.6096 0.4975 0.5188 1.1989 0.948
S 0.2224 0.4346 0.4541 1.8736 0.910
Scales
Y1 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.000
Y2 0.9434 0.4006 0.3984 0.2301 0.962
Y3 0.8185 0.4417 0.3996 0.2732 0.944
Y4 0.6725 0.3490 0.3218 0.1827 0.940
TECHNICAL OUTPUT
PARAMETER SPECIFICATION
TAU
Y1$1 Y2$1 Y3$1 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0 0 0 0
NU
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0 0 0 0
LAMBDA
I S
________ ________
Y1 0 0
Y2 0 0
Y3 0 0
Y4 0 0
ALPHA
I S
________ ________
1 1 2
BETA
I S
________ ________
I 0 0
S 0 0
PSI
I S
________ ________
I 3
S 4 5
DELTA
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0 6 7 8
STARTING VALUES
TAU
Y1$1 Y2$1 Y3$1 Y4$1
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
NU
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
LAMBDA
I S
________ ________
Y1 1.000 0.000
Y2 1.000 1.000
Y3 1.000 2.000
Y4 1.000 3.000
ALPHA
I S
________ ________
1 0.500 -0.500
BETA
I S
________ ________
I 0.000 0.000
S 0.000 0.000
PSI
I S
________ ________
I 0.500
S 0.000 0.100
DELTA
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4
________ ________ ________ ________
1 1.000 0.913 0.745 0.598
Beginning Time: 23:17:11
Ending Time: 23:17:12
Elapsed Time: 00:00:01
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