Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

CHAPTER 17number gives the number of observations to add to the last class. For atechnical description of the implementation of priors, see Asparouhovand Muthén (2010).In the MODEL PRIORS command, labels from the MODEL commandare used to represent parameters for which prior distributions arespecified. Following is an example of how to assign labels toparameters.MODEL:f BY y1-y10* (p1-p10);f@1;where p1 through p10 are the labels for the factor loadings for y1through y10, respectively.Following is an example of how to assign priors to the factor loadingparameters:MODEL PRIORS:p1-p10 ~ N (1, .5);where parameters p1 through p10 have normal priors with mean one andvariance 0.5.MODEL COMMAND VARIATIONSThe MODEL command is used to describe the analysis model using theoptions described in the previous sections. This section discussesvariations of the MODEL command for use with multiple group models,mixture models, multilevel models, and models for generating data forMonte Carlo simulations studies.MODEL:The MODEL command is used to describe the analysis model for asingle group analysis and the overall analysis model for multiple groupanalysis.622