Jumpstart Mplus for absolute beginners

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Jumpstart Mplus for absolute beginners
ESRC Funded Project Training in Applied
Psychometrics
Newnham College February 2008

• Tim Croudace tjc39_at_cam.ac.uk
• 1) Senior Lecturer (Psychometric Epidemiology)
• 2) Dept of Health Career Scientist (Public
  Health)
• Department of Psychiatry

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• Convenors
• 1) Prof Susan Golombok
• Director, Centre for Family Research
• 2) 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
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Avoiding footfalls in the foothills of latent
variable country
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cant see the wood for all the trees?!
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FCUK Electron diagram ...
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FCU(k)XY ? modelling diagram ...

• http//www.statmodel.com/download/usersguide/Chapt
  er1.pdf

X covariates F factors C classes Y continuous
indicators U categorical indicators