Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

CHAPTER 62. If the value of the original variable is greater than the cutpoint value,the new binary variable value is one and the new continuous variablevalue is the log of the original variable as the default.3. If the value of the original variable is less than or equal to thecutpoint value, the new binary variable value is zero and the newcontinuous variable value is missing.The TRANSFORM option of the DATA TWOPART command can beused to select an alternative to the default log transformation of the newcontinuous variables. One choice is no transformation.The NAMES option of the DATA TWOPART command is used toidentify the variables from the NAMES option of the VARIABLEcommand that are used to create a set of binary and continuous variables.Variables y1, y2, y3, and y4 are used. The BINARY option is used toassign names to the new set of binary variables. The names for the newbinary variables are bin1, bin2, bin3, and bin4. The CONTINUOUSoption is used to assign names to the new set of continuous variables.The names for the new continuous variables are cont1, cont2, cont3, andcont4. The new variables must be placed on the USEVARIABLESstatement of the VARIABLE command if they are used in the analysis.The CATEGORICAL option is used to specify which dependentvariables are treated as binary or ordered categorical (ordinal) variablesin the model and its estimation. In the example above, bin1, bin2, bin3,and bin4 are binary variables. The MISSING option is used to identifythe values or symbols in the analysis data set that are to be treated asmissing or invalid. In this example, the number 999 is the missing valueflag. The default is to estimate the model under missing data theoryusing all available data. By specifying ESTIMATOR=MLR, amaximum likelihood estimator with robust standard errors using anumerical integration algorithm will be used. Note that numericalintegration becomes increasingly more computationally demanding asthe number of growth factors and the sample size increase. In thisexample, one dimension of integration is used with a total of 15integration points. The ESTIMATOR option of the ANALYSIScommand can be used to select a different estimator.The first | statement specifies a linear growth model for the binaryoutcome. The second | statement specifies a linear growth model for thecontinuous outcome. In the parameterization of the growth model for126