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Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

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OUTPUT, SAVEDATA, And PLOT Commandsloadings and correlations and their standard errors, estimated residualvariances and their standard errors, the factor structure matrix, and factordeterminacies. Output for TYPE=BASIC includes sample statistics forthe analysis data set and other descriptive information appropriate forthe particular analysis.<strong>Mplus</strong> OUTPUTFollowing is a description of the information that is provided in theoutput as the default. Information about optional output is described inthe next section.INPUT SETUPThe first information printed in the <strong>Mplus</strong> output is a restatement of theinput file. The restatement of the input instructions is useful as a recordof which input produced the results provided in the output. Following isthe input file that produced the output that will be used in this chapter toillustrate most of the output features:TITLE: example for the output chapterDATA: FILE = output.dat;VARIABLE: NAMES = y1-y4 x;MODEL: f BY y1-y4;f ON x;OUTPUT:SAMPSTAT MODINDICES (0) STANDARDIZEDRESIDUAL TECH1 TECH2 TECH3 TECH4TECH5 FSCOEF FSDET CINTERVAL PATTERNS;SAVEDATA: FILE IS output.sav;SAVE IS FSCORES;SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS SPECIFICATIONSA summary of the analysis specifications is printed in the output afterthe restatement of the input instructions. This is useful because it showshow the program has interpreted the input instructions and read the data.It is important to check that the number of observations is as expected.It is also important to read any warnings and error messages that havebeen generated by the program. These contain useful information forunderstanding and modifying the analysis.635

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