Re: st: data file for use with sem()

[W Robert Long <W.R.Long@leeds.ac.uk>]

Thank you !

On 07/12/2012 15:35, John Antonakis wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes, it is possible to analyze summary data, which can be then estimated
> by maximum likelihood.  See -help ssd-
>
> For your interest, see also -help corr2data-, which can generate
> artificial data with a known correlational structure too.
>
> Best,
> J.
>
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> On 07.12.2012 14:59, Robert Long wrote:
> > Hello statlist
> >
> > I am fairly new to Stata and completely new to the sem() function.
> >
> > I have previously used MPlus, where it is common to have data files in a format like this:
> >
> > 79.75 0.97 81.96 109.16
> >    14.18 0.58 54.24 10.40
> >    1
> >    0.34 1
> >    0.59 0.39 1
> >    0.38 0.13 0.29 1
> >
> > where we have a row vector for the means of each variable, a row for their standard deviations, a lower triangular matrix for correlations, and the number of observations is input separately.
> >
> > Is there a way to get Stata to handle this kind of input without having the simulate the data myself ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robert Long
> >
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