Re: st: re: Mplus 7 and Stata 12

[Laura Gibbons <gibbonsl@u.washington.edu>]

You could try using the lavaan package in R.  It's a few steps behind 
Mplus, but it does take categorical variables.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Airey, David C wrote:

> .
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> Alan wrote:
>
> > Dave,
> > Can you be more specific? The stata2mplus command saves a data set for Mplus and writes a simple Mplus program to verify that it worked. Stata's own sem command can do a lot with quantitative endogenous variables in Stata 12.1.
>
> Phil wrote:
>
> > We, the UCLA Statistical Consulting Group, use Mplus when we have CFA
> > or SEM models with binary, ordinal or multinomial outcomes.  We also
> > use it to get the Satorra-Bentler scaled chi-square.  And also for
> > latent class models.  We use Stata for all of our Mplus data
> > management and send it to Mplus using -stata2mplus-.  Mplus 7 runs on
> > my Macbook Pro just fine.
>
>
>
> I am interested in what is not common between the two software choices for
> analysis of longitudinal and hierarchical data, mostly.
>
> I was just skimming the growth curve chapter in Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal's text and
> noted how you can model continuous outcome longitudinal data using either -sem- or
> -xtmixed-, and was curious if this is also true for categorical outcomes.
> So Mplus allows categorical outcomes, but so does Stata (xtmelogit, xtmepoisson), just
> not in the context of SEM or -sem-.
>
> I was considering purchasing an Mplus license which is used in a longitudinal
> data analysis course I'm going to take soon. However, even if you go back to school
> and are a full time student, Mplus must be purchased at expensive non-student prices if you gained
> an advanced degree in a non-quantitative field. They have this strange stipulation
> in their license. So I'm just balancing that purchase with a potential new
> version of Stata coming out next summer with SEM additions, etc.
>
> Mplus 7 looks very good.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Dave
>
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