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Mplus Users Guide v6.. - Muthén & Muthén

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MONTECARLO Commandnumber 1. In the example above, the censored variables available foruse in the MODEL command are y1, y2, y3, and y4, and the inflationvariables available for use in the MODEL command are y1#1, y2#1,y3#1, and y4#1.CATEGORICALThe CATEGORICAL option is used to specify which dependentvariables are treated as binary or ordered categorical (ordinal) variablesin the model and its estimation. Ordered categorical dependent variablescannot have more than 10 categories. The number of categories isdetermined from the data generation. The CATEGORICAL option isspecified as follows:CATEGORICAL ARE u2 u3 u7-u13;where u2, u3, u7, u8, u9, u10, u11, u12, and u13 are binary or orderedcategorical dependent variables in the analysis.For categorical dependent variables, there are as many thresholds asthere are categories minus one. The thresholds are referred to in theMODEL command by adding to the variable name the dollar sign ($)followed by a number. The threshold for a binary variable u1 is referredto as u1$1. The two thresholds for a three-category variable u2 arereferred to as u2$1 and u2$2.NOMINALThe NOMINAL option is used to specify which dependent variables aretreated as unordered categorical (nominal) variables in the model and itsestimation. Unordered categorical dependent variables cannot havemore than 10 categories. The number of categories is determined fromthe data generation. The NOMINAL option is specified as follows:NOMINAL ARE u1 u2 u3 u4;where u1, u2, u3, u4 are unordered categorical dependent variables inthe analysis.For nominal dependent variables, all categories but the last category canbe referred to. The last category is the reference category. The701

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