Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

OUTPUT, SAVEDATA, And PLOT CommandsTYPE IS COVARIANCE; variesCORRELATION;SAVE =FSCORES;CPROBABILITIES;REPWEIGHTS;MAHALANOBIS;LOGLIKELIHOOD;INFLUENCE;COOKS;MFILE =file name;MNAMES =names of variables in the data set;MFORMAT =format statement;FREEFREE;MMISSING = Variable (#);*;.;MSELECT = names of variables; all variables inMNAMESAlthough SAVEDATA is not a required command, either the FILE,SAMPLE, SIGB, RESULTS, ESTIMATES, DIFFTEST, TECH3,TECH4, KAPLANMEIER, BASEHAZARD, or ESTBASELINE optionis required if the SAVEDATA command is used.Note that commands and options can be shortened to four or moreletters. Option settings can be referred to by either the complete word orthe part of the word shown above in bold type.FILEThe FILE option is used to specify the name of the ASCII file in whichthe individual-level data used in the analysis will be saved. Following isan example of how to specify the FILE option:FILE IS newdata.dat;where newdata.dat is the name of the file in which the individual-leveldata used in the analysis will be saved. If the working directory containsa file of the same name, it will be overwritten. The data are saved in afixed format unless the FORMAT option is used. Any original and/ortransformed variables used in the analysis will be saved. Missing valuesare saved as an asterisk (*). If categorical variables have been recoded665