Introductory And Intermediate Growth Models - Mplus

Statistical Analysis With Latent VariablesA General Modeling Framework (Continued)Models That Use Latent VariablesContinuous Latent Variables• Factor analysis models• Structural equation models• Growth curve models• Multilevel modelsCategorical Latent Variables• Latent class models• Mixture models• Discrete-time survival models• Missing data modelsMplus integrates the statistical concepts captured bylatent variables into a general modeling framework thatincludes not only all of the models listed above but alsocombinations and extensions of these models.5General Latent Variable Modeling Framework• Observed variablesx background variables (no model structure)y continuous and censored outcome variablesu categorical (dichotomous, ordinal, nominal) andcount outcome variables• Latent variablesf continuous variablesc– interactions among f’scategorical variables– multiple c’s63