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Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

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ANALYSIS CommandThe default is 1 in which case every iteration is used. To request thatevery 20 th iteration be used, specify:THIN = 20;DISTRIBUTIONThe distribution option is used with the MODE setting of the POINToption to specify the maximum number of iterations to use to computethe multivariate mode in Bayes estimation. The default is 10,000. If thenumber of iterations used in the estimation exceeds the number ofiterations specified using the DISTRIBUTION option, the number ofiterations specified using the DISTRIBUTION option is used. Thisnumber of iterations is selected from the total iterations using equallyspacedintervals. To request that more iterations be used to compute themultivariate mode, specify:DISTRIBUTION = 15000;INTERACTIVEThe INTERACTIVE option is used to allow changes in technicalspecifications during the iterations of an analysis when TECH8 is used.This is useful in analyses that are computationally demanding. If astarting value set has computational difficulties, it can be skipped. If toomany random starts have been chosen, the STARTS option can bechanged. If a too strict convergence criterion has been chosen, theMCONVERGENCE option can be changed. Following is an example ofhow to use the INTERACTIVE option:INTERACTIVE = control.dat;where control.dat is the name of the file that contains the technicalspecifications that can be changed during an analysis. This file iscreated automatically and resides in the same directory as the input file.The following options of the ANALYSIS command are contained in thisfile: STARTS, MITERATIONS, MCONVERGENCE,LOGCRITERION, and RLOGCRITERION. No other options can beused in this file except the INTERRUPT statement which is used to skipthe current starting value set and go to the next starting value set. It hassettings of 0 and 1. A setting of 0 specifies that a starting value set is not563

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