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Sorry for the long delay in posting. I've been swamped at work and that tires me out, so I go home and it's all I can do to make it through dinner before I am dozing on the couch. This doesn't make for great blog reading. Plus, I don't mean to make this into a blog all about my child, but that's about all that's going on right now that I can write about. I don't work at a place that lends itself to the sharing of stories, at least not without the fear of being sued. So, here's the latest pregnancy/baby news:
Updated belly shot at 6.5 months
The rest of this is stuff we've amassed for the baby's room which is currently in a state of remodel. Since we're not finding out whether it's a boy or a girl, we've gone with the gender neutral green and brown. I figure I'll throw some blue or pink in there with it once I have the baby.
The Crib
Bedding for the crib. We don't have this part yet, but we're registered for it.
Misc. items:
It's probably obvious, but I purchased the green shade. I don't have a base yet.
Again with the obvious (green), although I did contemplate the yellow.
I have the elephant in the back.


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17-18 November 2003, Johannesburg, South Africa
|The GFII conference was held in conjunction with two events which took place concurrently on 19 November 2003:
How can modern, transparent governance help countries to attract and benefit from foreign investment? This was the central theme at a conference which the OECD and South Africa jointly organised in Johannesburg from 17-18 November 2003.
Entitled "Encouraging Modern Governance and Transparency for Investment: Why and How", the conference was the third annual meeting of the OECD Global Forum on International Investment (GFII). The GFII is an open forum for policy dialogue among OECD members, non-members and other stakeholders world-wide. It provides them with a platform for exchanging their expertise and experience in meeting the challenges and opportunities created by international investment.
The GFII conference was divided into three sessions. The first session explored the case for good public governance for attracting investment and maximizing its benefits to host societies. Country case studies and OECD and other research will underpinned the debate.
The second session delved into one aspect of good governance: transparency. Transparent policy and rule making is a key condition of effective investors' decisions and a well functioning economy. The discussion focused on what achieving transparency means in an investment policy context, learning from different experiences around the world.
The concluding session explored avenues for building capacities for policy transparency through the joint efforts of host countries, OECD countries and the international business community.
Participants at the GFII included key investment officials from OECD member and non-OECD governments; representatives from international organizations operating in the region (such as the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the regional development banks, and the European Commission) and non-governmental organisations. There were also members of important business groups, in particular the Business Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, the International Chamber of Commerce, and members of the private sector.
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of improving in life: avoiding the bad and aspiring to the good. As children, we learn about how to function in precisely this sequence. First, we make mistakes and suffer the penalties, then we learn to build goals toward which we strive. It is expected that as that striving becomes a driving focus, the errors will fall away by themselves and we won't have to repeatedly make silly or costly errors. Ultimately, both aspects determine greatness. Whether it be in music, sports, or major life decisions, the quality of the result is determined by making wise decisions and limiting errors most especially, preventable errors.
In my previous editorial ("What Makes Great Programmers Different?"), I drew a profile of great programmers and discussed the path to that destination. In the name of proper disclosure, I am not a great programmer in the sense that I presented it. But due to my work as editor, I have met many great programmers and spoken with them at length about the nature of excellence in programming.
In this editorial, I examine the traits of programmers who occupy the lowest tiers of the profession. I've met them mostly in my developer work and we've rarely spoken about excellence in programming. They make good negative examples; that is, they serve as powerful reminders of what to not do. And in a secondary way, they are a costly way to reaffirm the need for good habits.
The bad programmer in action is best described by Daniel K. Lyons, who put forth the following list of traits as a comment on my previous editorial. The traits are:
- Their code is large, messy, and bug laden.
- They have very superficial knowledge of their problem domain and their tools.
- Their code has a lot of copy/paste and they have very little interest in techniques that reduce it.
- The fail to account for edge cases, while inefficiently dealing with the general case.
- They never have time to comment their code or break it into smaller pieces.
- Empirical evidence plays no role in their decisions.
I believe that most bad programmers participate to varying degrees in all these activities. They rarely fail to specialize in just one, alas.
Of Lyons' points, however, the one that consigns bad programmers to their fate forever is the last item. In my experience, at the core of bad programming is invariably a lack of curiosity. Bad programmers are often comfortable within the constraints of their narrow skill set; and they view the quest for alternative ways of doing things as the kind of folderol that is more of a personal programming indulgence than a productive activity. Their happiness within their lack of ambition is well encapsulated by the vaudeville gag line, "Three years ago, I started in show business at the bottom and I like it here!"
What they don't appreciate, though, is just how much work and effort they shift to the rest of the team. And if this information is communicated to them, they're initially surprised, then incredulous, but ultimately unfazed.
The larger issue, though, is that this information is rarely communicated to them. So, they manage to glide along with a false sense of dependable mediocrity. If their numbers are sufficient, they drive away truly talented programmers and punish the good ones who remain. Personally, I believe the only way to sufficiently communicate their shortcomings to them and make their cost clear to management is through diligent use of code reviews. I'll take up that subject in a future editorial.
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Since 1996, our community has been well represented by Sen. Richard Moore, who is currently the president pro tempore, the third-highest post in the Massachusetts Senate.
Of particular importance to me is that Senator Moore has consistently safeguarded the interests of the people of our town when they are often at their most vulnerable � challenged by age, physical or mental illness and most in need of our help.
As a board member of Riverside Community Care, a non-profit behavioral health and human service provider with programs in central and eastern Massachusetts, I have seen firsthand how much he cares about the people we serve. He has championed legislation to help behavioral health providers with the cost of Electronic Health Records (since they were left out of federal assistance), attended numerous ribbon cuttings when we opened new services, and joined our staff and the people we serve every year at our Pancake Breakfast fundraiser at Crossroads Clubhouse in Hopedale.
He has authored or supported legislation on patient safety and on reserving nursing home beds during certain leaves of absence so that our loved ones don�t lose the last familiar place they have just because of a brief hospital stay.
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[Dawn] Targeted attacks on
in the city continued on a second consecutive day on Thursday, when two more police officials were
bumped off
, bringing the total number of
killed this year in the metropolis to 109.
One of the latest two victims had completed his training at the Razzakabad police training centre only a day ago, police sources said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a sub-inspector heading to work was
bumped off
in a drive-by shooting in Saeedabad.
In a similar incident, police constable Shamim Ahmed, 45, was heading to work on a
cycle of violence
on Thursday morning when he was killed close to the Malir district courts, where he was posted, within the remit of the Malir City
cop shoppe
The police rushed to the crime-scene and shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
"The victim was a resident of Gulshan-e-Qadri, Malir City," said Malir DSP Rao Iqbal. He added that the constable was posted in the security zone-I and was deputed at the Malir courts.
While the investigation was under way to ascertain the motive for the killing, another constable was targeted in the Pirabad area.
Police constable Mohammad Kaleem was targeted near Baitul Maymar mosque in Kunwari Colony late Thursday night.
The victim was riding a motorbike when he was
bumped off
, the police said.
Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
front man
SSP Imran Shaukat said the slain constable had passed out from the Razzakabad police training college on Wednesday.
'Sectarian' killing
A young man was
rubbed out
in Liaquatabad in what police described as a 'sectarian' attack after they could not find any other motive for the killing. The shooting caused panic as people ran to take cover resulting in a massive pile-up on the main road.
Syed Sheraz Abbas Rizvi, 35, was driving a car (T-5962) when
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The dear departed
was a resident of Federal C Area and was a construction contractor. He was father of a child. A senior police officer said initial reports indicated sectarian motive for the killing, adding that there was no other apparent reason for it. Following medico-legal malities at the hospital, the body was taken to Rizvia and then to Incholi.
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a truck was set on fire in Gulbahar.
'Sectarian' attack victim dies
One of the two victims of a Dec 11 sectarian attack, who was under treatment at a private hospital, died on Thursday evening, police said. They added Zaheer Hussain and Hashmat Ali had sustained gunshot wounds in an attack outside Salman Farsi mosque in Toori Bangash Colony of Orangi Town. While Mr Hussain had
was struck down in his prime
, Mr Ali was rushed to the hospital where he was admitted. On Thursday, Mr Ali died. His body was taken to the Incholi Imambargah on Thursday night.
Man found
rubbed out
The body of an unidentified man was found in Ranchhore Line within the remit of the Eidgah police staOfficials said the victim had been shot in the head. After a post-mortem examination at the Civil Hospital
Bloody Karachi
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Raheem Paxton
posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 7:33 pm
If the measurement model does not fit the data for a specific group (e.g. females), but fits for males, can you still proceed with constraints to the model.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 11:24 am
No, you would have to find a well-fitting model for each group.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 8:11 am
Hi Bengt and/or Linda,
I have a couple of questions about invariance that concerns invariance of the variance of a factor. Is my understanding correct that, if one has say two groups, the variance of a factor has to be constrained to some value in one group (either by setting it equal to 1 or by setting one of its loadings equal to 1), and at least one of the loadings on the factor need to be constrained in the second group? Second, is my understanding correct that we still won't know what the variance of the factor equals in the second group in an absolute sense but rather the estimate of the variance in the second group will only be relative the value set by constraint in the first group?
Thanks very much!
Rick Zinbarg
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 8:39 am
The metric of a factor can be set by either fixing a factor loading to one or fixing the factor variance to one. With multiple group analysis, if a factor loading is fixed to one in each group, a factor variance can be estimated for each group. I think this way of setting the metric would be best for multiple group analysis.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 11:20 am
wow - that was fast, thanks Linda! I am a bit confused though as I thought fixing a factor loading to one fixes the factor variance to the variance of that indicator. Thus, I must be misunderstanding something as I don't see how the variance can both be set to equal that of a particular indicator and is estimated. Any help clearing up my confusion would be appreciated.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 3:29 pm
Fixing a factor indicator to set the metric of the factor uses the scale of the y variable that has the factor loading fixed to one. This implies that as the factor changes one unit, y is expected to change the same amount. This does not mean that the variance of the factor is equal to the variance of y nor that the variance of the factor is fixed at one.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 10:47 pm
that helps, thanks very much! Just to make sure I understand, I am going to try to restate what you said in somewhat different terms.
a standardized loading equals an unstandardized loading times the ratio of the standard deviation of y divided by the standard deviation of the factor.
we can get a standardized loading directly from the item correlations, and the standard deviation of y (or at least our sample estimate of it) is observed. Thus, in the above equation, we are still left with two unknowns and the equation can't be solved in the absence of setting a constraint on one of the two unknowns. We can either constrain the sd of the factor (typically to 1) and estimate the unstandardized loading OR we can constrain the unstandardized loading and estimate the sd of the factor. In the later case (constraining an unstandardized loading), once we constrain one loading, we can now use the estimated sd of the factor to plug into the equation for the unstandardized loadings for all the other items and therefore estimate the remaining unstandardized loadings. Does this sound close to accurate? Thanks again!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 7:23 am
This is not how I think about it but it may be plausible.
Marc Mollers
posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:10 am
Hi Linda and Bengt,
I am a Mplus-beginner and testing for CFA measurement invariance between two groups. Variables are categorical, parameterization is theta. As recommended in the handbook, I compared the configural invariance model with loadings and intercepts free across groups, factor means fixed at 0 for both groups and residual variances of obs. variables fixed at 1 for both groups with the more restrictive default model.
(Part of) Input for configural model:
MODEL: abt by cieqr_2 cieqr_1 cieqr_3 cieqr_7; auff by cieqr_12 cieqr_5 cieqr_10 cieqr_13; empa by cieqr_6 cieqr_9 cieqr_8 cieqr_10 cieqr_14;
schue by cieqr_16 cieqr_6 cieqr_11 cieqr_15 cieqr_17 cieqr_18 cieqr_19 cieqr_20 cieqr_21 cieqr_22;
CIEQR_15 WITH CIEQR_16; cieqr_2 with cieqr_3; [abt@0]; [auff@0]; [empa@0]; [schue@0];
CIEQR_1@1; CIEQR_2@1; and so on... (all residual variances)
MODEL Offline: (one of the two groups)
--> the same model with loadings of reference variables fixed at 1 +
[CIEQR_1$1 CIEQR_1$2 CIEQR_2$1 and so on...(all tresholds)];
Config. model: CFI=.948; RMSEA=.069. Default model: CFI=.951; RMSEA=.066. So the more restrictive model has a better fit? What am I doing wrong? Does this have something to do with the restrictions for factor means and residual variances? How should I test for invariance of loadings and tresholds separately? I am quite desperate.
Thanks a lot in advance and greetings,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 7:43 am
Please send all relevant files and your license number to
John Capman
posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 7:48 am
I realize this posting was quite a long time ago, but I was wondering if there may be any feedback as to why the data presented by Marc Moller (above) occurred. i am curious as I am having a similar problem with my data. That is, the more restrictive model is fitting better than the less restrictive. Thanks in advance for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 8:09 am
If you are using the WLSMV estimator, you should be using the DIFFTEST option to test nested models. With WLSMV, only the p-value should be interpreted. The chi-square and degrees of freedom are adjusted to obtain a correct chi-square and should not be interpreted in the regular way. If this is not the case, please send all relevant files and your license number to
John Capman
posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 8:23 am
I did not run the DIFFTEST option. I will try it and let you know. Otherwise, I will send the data with the license #.
Thanks for your prompt reply. Greatly appreciated.
posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 2:05 pm
I am conducting a CFA with 3 factors and 18 ordinal items at two time points using WLSMV estimation. I am interested in evaluating measurement invariance. I have demonstrated equal form and now want to look at constraining the factor loadings.
1) I constrained all of the factor loadings and conducted a diff test. Chi-square was significant:
Value 31.570
Degrees of Freedom 10**
P-value 0.0005
However, CFI is slightly higher with the loadings constrained and TLI and RMSEA do not change.
Without factor loadings constrained: CFI=0.959, TLI=0.986, RMSEA=0.056, SRMR=0.065
With factor loadings constrained: CFI=0.967, TLI=0.986, RMSEA=0.056, SRMR=0.071
How should I interpret this? My sample size is 686. Is this an example where chi-square may be overly sensitive?
2)To determine the source of the significant chi-square, would an appropriate approach be to consider each factor loading separately and thus conduct 18 diff tests (perhaps adjusted for multiple comparisons?)
2) Should I have constrained the thresholds at the same time as the factor loadings or is this a separate test? It is my understanding from previous posts that it is difficult to disentangle the two. Does this invalidate the meaning of tests looking at factor loadings only when using WLSMV? Is it ever appropriate to consider factor loadings without looking at thresholds?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 10:11 am
Chi-square is used for comparing nested models. With WLSMV, you need to use the DIFFTEST option to do this. CFI, TLI, etc. are not.
For categorical outcomes, we recommend looking at the thresholds and factor loadings together. The models we recommend are shown in Chapter 13 for multiple group analysis. The same principles apply across time.
posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:28 am
Thanks for your reply. Just a couple of points to clarity -
1) I did use the DIFFTEST option to compare the nested models. Do you think the apparent disagreement between the difftest results and the change in the models CFI,TLI could be due to chi-square being overly sensitive to sample size?
2)To determine the source of the significant DIFFTEST, would an appropriate approach be to consider each factor loading separately and thus conduct 18 diff tests (perhaps adjusted for multiple comparisons?)
Thanks again.
posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 11:40 am
I apologize for the multiple postings - is it still necessary to consider the equivalence of thresholds even if i am not working with MEANSTRUCTURE?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 6:55 pm
1. I would not make much of these minor differences in CFI and TLI. They are not useful for comparing models. I would go with the DIFFTEST results. Your sample size is not large for categorical data analysis.
2. You should look at factor loadings and thresholds together. The two of them determine the basic building block of categorical data anaysis, the Item Characteristic Curve.
3. Means and thresholds are the default in Mplus with weighted least squares estimation. They cannot be excluded.
Erica Valpiani
posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Dear Linda and Bengt,
We are trying to conduct a measurement invariance analysis using the logic of testing increasingly restrictive models (e.g. configural, weak, strong, strict). We have a one factor model with two groups and five categorical indicators. Many of the worked examples (e.g. Gregorich�s worked example
) start with a model which freely estimates loadings, thresholds and residuals in both groups.
However it appears that, if loadings and thresholds are free, then the residuals need to be set at 1. Whilst our models runs when residuals are set at one, setting these at one also means that we can not follow the logic of testing models by systematically restraining lambas, taus then thetas between the groups as the thetas are already fixed.
Is there any way of creating a baseline model using categorical indicators which can be used to assess the significance of changes in later models?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 5:57 pm
The steps to test for measurement invariance with categorical outcomes differs from those for continuous outcomes. The models we suggest are shown on pages 399-400 of the Mplus User's Guide and our Topic 2 course handout.
Fernando H Andrade
posted on Monday, May 03, 2010 - 3:19 pm
Dear Dr. Muthen
I am trying to test for invariance by gender. i keep getting this message
these are the models based on handout topic 2 page 169 for non-invariance model
could you please give me hand? thank you very much
su by y1alc y1cig y1mar;
pa by eng_r hist_r math_r sci_r;
]; !Setting means to zero
model female:
su by y1alc y1cig y1mar;
pa by eng_r hist_r math_r sci_r;
[y1alc$1 y1cig$1 y1mar$1 eng_r$1 math_r$1 hist_r$1 sci_r$1];
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, May 03, 2010 - 5:20 pm
When you mention the first factor indicator in MODEL female, you free it causing the model not to be identified. You should not mention the first factor indicator in group-specific MODEL commands.
Fernando H Andrade
posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2010 - 5:41 am
thank you! works pretty well now.
nanda mooij
posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 6:30 am
Dear Dr. Muthen. I want to save the tresholds of my model, but Mplus is only giving the factor loadings. Im using WLSM so the tresholds should be the default. When I try the estimator MLR, it does give the tresholds, but I prefer using WLSM, so how can I get the tresholds of my model?
Thanks in regard,
Nanda Mooij
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 6:36 am
If you are using an older version of Mplus, add TYPE=MEANSTRUCTURE to the ANALYSIS command. If not, send the full output and your license number to
Sabine Spindler
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 4:50 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I am testing measurement invariance for 1 scale through multiple groups analysis (male, female) in ordered categorical data, using WLSMV and Theta Parameterization.
Baseline Model:
factor loadings estimated
thresholds free
items residual variance fixed @ 1
factor mean @ 0, factor variance @ 1 for identification
Comparison Model:
factor loadings estimated but contrained to be equal across groups
thresholds estimated but constrained to be equal across groups
items residual variance fixed @ 1
factor mean @ 0, factor variance @ 1 for identification
DIFFTEST for Model Comparison is significant, however in the "wrong" direction: The Comparison model has MUCH better fit than the Baseline Model.
How can this be?
Thank you,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 08, 2011 - 5:20 pm
Your Comparison model is not set up right and will be ill-fitting. This is because you have factor means fixed at zero and factor variances fixed at 1 in all groups (I assume that's what you mean). You should only do it in one (reference) group. Then you'd get the same model as the invariance model we propose.
Sabine Spindler
posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 12:13 am
Thank you very much. I have done that now, and still - the comparison model has an improved fit as compared to the baseline model. Not as much any more as before, but significantly (DIFFTEST). To me, this seems very odd - how can this be?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 4:18 pm
Please send the two outputs and your license number to
posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 8:44 am
I am conducting a measurement invariance analysis in Mplus. I ran a series of nested models to test measurement invariance with 1 factor (6 continuous items) and 5 groups (the N size is unusually high... >600,000). Because the items were skewed, I used MLM estimator. When I ran scalar invariance model, a strange thing happened: the chi-square is smaller than the configural model's chi-square! I know it is impossible so I tried several things. When I tried the same analyses using ML estimator, the chi-square problem disappeared. I have two questions.
1) Is the smaller chi-square a problem (or a characteristic?) with MLM estimator or did I do something wrong?
!Configural Model (Chi-square = 24776.964, df =45)
!Scalar Model (Chi-square = 17025.705, df=113)
2) Even if the items are skewed, I feel that using ML estimator is OK because I will compare only nested models. Am I on the right track?
Thanks in advance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 9:52 am
This can answered well only by looking at your two outputs. You can send them to Support.
posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 - 10:27 am
Dear Bengt,
I am looking at measure invariance on my latent variables across males and females. My items are categorical and I am using the WLSMV estimator.
I run:
1. a model with free loadings and thresholds
2. a model with free thresholds and fixed loadings
Difftest shows me that step 2 is a worse fit and by looking at the modindices I can improve the fit by freeing one loading.
2b. I run a model with free threshold and all fixed loading BUT the one identified by modindices
3. a model with fixed thresholds and loadings( apart from the one identified in step2).
I compare step 3 and 2b and the difftest shows that step 3 offers a worse fit.
3b. Looking at the modindices I free one threshold and re run the analysis.
difftest still shows that the model in 3b is a worse fit than 2b; however, the model fit indices are equivalent...
I went on to free a number of thresholds (based on the modindices) but this did not make my difftest non-significant and did not improve the model fit (CFI/TLI).
Could I argue that as the model fit are good enough by step 3 (same as step 2b), I am confident that it is a good model ?
or is there a better way to identify the thresholds that need exploring other than modindices?
Thanks for your help
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 - 7:48 pm
I assume you are working with ordered polytomous items. If you want to separately test thresholds and loadings with polytomous items you should consult the Millsap-Tien (2004) article. We recommend changing both at the same time for simplicity.
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 12:57 am
Thanks Bengt, I will check out the paper.. my items are binary so I could still apply the polytomous approach?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 7:02 am
If you are working with binary items, you cannot apply the polytomous approach. For binary items, the models to be compared are shown in the Topic 2 course handout under multiple group analysis and on pages 485-486 of the Version 7 Mplus User's Guide.
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 10:40 am
Thanks Linda,
I have used the example in the manual and I find that the chi-square test is highly significant x2(120) = 570.2, p<.001 while the model fit indices do not worsen compared to the model with all free parameters).
I have compared the loadings for boys and girls when they were allowed to vary (free model) and I identified 3 loadings that may need to be freed - I do this in separate steps - but still the p< .001 and the model fit is unchanged.
I tried freeing thresholds based on the modindices output but this also has very little effect on the chi-squared p value.
I feel this could be due to the large sample size (2,700) as it appears that the chi-square for the difftest is sensitive to large sample size (Chen, 2007)
If this was the case, I'd be inclined to use the model fit indices to evaluate measure invariance - few authors seem to adopt this approach.
I was wondering if you think this is a reasonable approach and hoping you could recommend a paper on this.
Many many thanks
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 10:48 am
I should also probably mention that when I run my main analyses on a fully fixed model vs. the fully free model the results are very similar which is also why I am surprised by the chi-square test results...
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 11:21 am
With binary items, the model with only free factor loadings is not identified. We will have a FAQ with the details about this on the website shortly.
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 1:09 pm
Thanks Linda -
is there anything else I could do in the meantime to check model invariance?
is it sufficient to report that running the model completely separately for male and female (free model) produces equivalent results to using a multigroup approach (fixed model)?
I am writing the results for a paper and I am concerned about reviewers' picking on this.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 1:59 pm
Please send the outputs that show these equivalent results and your license number to
Cynthia Yuen
posted on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 7:43 pm
Hi Linda and/or Bengt,
I know this is an old thread but I am an Mplus novice with a question about constraining factor means when testing measurement equivalence. I want to test whether or not factor means are equal across cultures. Looking through the thread, it looks like you have to set the
for a reference group and freely estimate the mean and variance for the second group in order for the model to run, which mine does. But, how do I test whether the means are different across groups? When I constrain them to be equal to each other I get this message:
Is it reasonable to export factor scores for each culture and just run a t-test? Or is there another way to do this within Mplus?
Thank you so much!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 11:45 am
The way to compare latent variable means is to compares the model where factor means are zero in all groups to the model where factor means are zero in one group and free in the other groups. Note that if you fix the factor variance to one, you should free the first factor loading which is fixed to one by default.
Leslie Rutkowski
posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 12:10 pm
Hi Mplus Team,
With the new convenience feature for measurement invariance, I understand that the mean of the latent variable is fixed to 0 in each group and that no further constraints are imposed on the mean structure. Based on this, the mean structure is just identified as their are as many empirical means in the observed variables as intercepts. Then, we have no DF to test the mean structure.
How can we impose additional constraints (e.g. equality of intercepts) to test the mean structure in one step via the convenience feature?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 3:18 pm
If you specify
model = configural metric scalar;
you get a summary of chi-square test, including the scalar versus the metric which gives you a test of the mean structure.
Es Maths
posted on Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 6:41 pm
how do we compare a partial scalar model with a configural model (non-nested models)? Is it ok to use DELTA CFI and RMSEA in WLSMV?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 14, 2019 - 2:10 pm
I don't have much faith in delta CFI and RMSEA. Instead, you can use BIC in ML.
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Christian habits are the best business habits, if men would but believe it. When a man mixes his religion with his business and allows every act of his life to be guided by it, he stands the best chance in this world, if I may be allowed such a secular expression, for "Honesty is the best policy" after all, and Christianity is the best honesty. The sharp cutting competition of the times may be called honesty—it is only called so on earth, it is not called so by God, for there is a good deal of cheating in it. Honesty in the highest sense—Christian honesty—will be found after all to be the best policy in everything, and there will ordinarily be a prosperity, even worldly prosperity, attending a good man in the patient industrious pursuit of his calling. But if he does not have that success he craves, still there is one thing he knows, he would have it if it were best for him. I often know Christian men talk in this fashion; "Well I do but very little business," says one, "but I have enough coming in to live upon comfortably and happy. I never cared much for push and competition; I never felt that I was fit for it, and I sometimes thank God that I never thrust myself out into the rough stream, but that I was content to keep along shore." And I have marked this one thing, and as a matter of fact I know it cannot be disproved, that many such humble-minded men are the very best of Christians, they live the happiest lives, and whatsoever they do certainly does prosper, for they get what they expected though they did not expect much, and they get what they want though their wants are not very large.
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When it comes to spending money and taxation, California lawmakers are limited by a wide array of voter-approved constitutional amendments and initiatives.
What's important is not how many gifts lawmakers receive. It's how little ability to govern they have.
If fiscal and other rules were stripped away, legislators could make big decisions -- and be held accountable for the consequences. In that sort of system, a ban on gifts would have meaning -- because legislators would have real power.


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