Transcript Jumpstart Mplus for absolute beginners

ESRC Funded Project
Training in Applied Psychometrics
Jumpstart Mplus for
absolute beginners
Newnham College February 2008
Tim Croudace [email protected]
1) Senior Lecturer (Psychometric Epidemiology)
2) Dept of Health Career Scientist (Public Health)
Department of Psychiatry
Convenors:
1)
2)
Prof Susan Golombok *
Director, Centre for Family Research
Prof John Rust
The Psychometrics Centre
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Demonstrator
Dr Jon Heron
Head of Statistics,
ALSPAC, University of Bristol
* Fellow of
Newnham
College and
our host
Avoiding footfalls in the foothills of
latent variable country
…can’t see the wood
for all the trees?!
FCUK Electron diagram ...
FCU(k)XY  modelling diagram ...
http://www.statmodel.com/download/usersguide/Chapter1.pdf
X
covariates
F
factors
C
classes
Y
continuous indicators
U
categorical indicators