1st Mplus Users Meeting: Exploring the boundaries of Mplus

On October the 27^th 2010 (9.00 a.m.- 4.30 p.m.) the first meeting of the ‘Dutch Mplus user’s group: Exploring the boundaries of Mplus’ took place at Utrecht University.

For a list of participants, click here.

The following presentations were given (including a link the the powerpoint presentations):

•  Key-note

  •  Prof. dr. Joop Hox –

  Mplus version 6 which allows for Bayesian data analysis. (ppt)

•  Short problem presentations (10 min.)
  • Didi Rhebergen (seeking convergence I)
  • Thomas Scotto (seeking convergence II)
  • Thessa Wong (missing data in recall events) (ppt)

•  (New) features in MPLUS 
  • Peter Lugtig– ESEM: apart from confirmatory analyses, Mplus features the possibility to do Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling. The possibilities and benefits are illustrated with factor analysis models.(ppt)
  • Maartje van Stralen – How to conduct mediation analyses in Mplus using the MODEL INDIRECT command
  • Rens van de Schoot – How to deal with inequality constraints between regression coefficients in Mplus (MODEL CONSTRAINT) using the parametric bootstrap procedure (MONTECARLO). (ppt)

•  Modeling issues in Mplus
  • Daniel Oberski (Detection of misspecifications in Mplus by using modification indices, expected parameter change and the power of the test for stepwise improvement of the model)
  • Yves Rosseel (MLR-MLM estimators) (20 min.)
  • Margot Peeters (giving a metric to a latent variable