Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

MODEL Commandall of the variables in NAMES statement are used in the analysis, thenthe order is taken from there. If the variables for the analysis are asubset of the variables in the NAMES statement, the order is taken fromthe USEVARIABLES statement.The order of continuous latent variables is determined by the order ofthe BY and | statements in the MODEL command. Factors defined usingthe BY option come first in the order that they occur in the MODELcommand followed by the random effects defined using the | symbol inthe order that they occur in the MODEL command.The list function can be used on the left- and right-hand sides of ON andWITH statements and on the right-hand side of BY statements. A list onthe left-hand side implies multiple statements. A list on the right-handside implies a list of variables.Following is an example of the use of the list function on the right-handside of a BY statement. It assumes the variables are in the order: y1, y2,y3, y4, y5, y6, y7, y8, y9, y10, y11, and y12.f1 BY y1-y4;f2 BY y5-y9;f3 BY y10-y12;The program would interpret these BY statements as:f1 BY y1 y2 y3 y4;f2 BY y5 y6 y7 y8 y9;f3 BY y10 y11 y12;To use the list function with latent variables the order of latent variableswould be f1, f2, f3 because of the order of the BY statements in theMODEL command.Following is an example of using the list function on both the left- andthe right-hand sides of the ON statement:f1-f3 ON x1-x3;This implies the multiple statements:587