Introduction

Day 1: Mplus and the LISREL model

These exercises are for day 1 of S23. In the first exercise we investigate measurement invariance, while in the second exercise the focus is on path analysis. You can choose which of these you want to focus on, and start with that.

In both exercises we will focus on: a) determining the number of degrees of freedom (df) by counting the number of sample statistics (i.e., unique pieces of information in our data) and the number of free parameters; and b) checking the TECH1 output to see where the free parameters are in the diverse underlying model matrices.

You can navigate through these excises by using the left-hand menu. Answers are included below each exercise in a drop down option. The data and Mplus input files can found in the SURFdrive folder.