Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

CHAPTER 15THE VARIABLE COMMANDVARIABLE:marstat30, marstat31, marstat32, marstat33, marstat35marstat37, marstat38, marstat39, marstat40.There is no hd variable for ages 23 and 35, no dep variable for ages 23,31, and 34, and no marstat variable for ages 24, 29, 34, and 36 becausethese ages are not represented by the combination of cohort values andyears of measurement.The VARIABLE command is used to provide information about thevariables in the data set to be analyzed. The VARIABLE command hasoptions for naming and describing the variables in the data set to beanalyzed, subsetting the data set on observations, subsetting the data seton variables, and specifying missing values for each variable.Following are the options for the VARIABLE command:NAMES AREnames of variables in the data set;USEOBSERVATIONS ARE conditional statement to select observations; all observationsin data setUSEVARIABLES ARE names of analysis variables; all variables inNAMESMISSING ARE variable (#);. ;* ;BLANK;CENSORED AREnames, censoring type, and inflation status forcensored dependent variables;CATEGORICAL ARE names of binary and ordered categorical(ordinal) dependent variables;NOMINAL AREnames of unordered categorical (nominal)dependent variables;COUNT AREnames of count variables (model);GROUPING ISname of grouping variable (labels);IDVARIABLE ISname of ID variable;FREQWEIGHT ISname of frequency (case) weight variable;CENTERING ISGRANDMEAN (variable names);GROUPMEAN (variable names);TSCORES AREnames of observed variables with informationon individually-varying times of observation;480