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Growth Modeling of Longitudinal Data
posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 7:10 pm
I have 2 variables (y1 & y2) measured at 4 time points. At each time point, multiple regression analyses show that the relationship between y1 & y2 is an inverted U shape, i.e., y1 is highest when y2 is at a moderate level, y1 is low when y2 is either low or high.
Growth models show that y1 did not change over time, i.e., there is significant variation among our subjects in the latent intercept factor (i1) but no variation in the latent linear slope factor. On the other hand, both the intercept (i2) and linear slope factors (s2) of y2 have significant variation among subjects. There is no evidence of a quadratic growth factor for either y1 or y2.
Growth modelling results also show that there is no correlation between i1 and i2, and between i1 and s2. This does not contradict my cross-sectional analyses. However, is there any way that I can model the data longitudinally to reflect the cross-sectional relationship?
Thanks a lot for your time.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 8:14 am
You can try to create an interaction variable:
i2sq | i2 XWITH i2;
and then regress
i1 ON i2 i2sq;
I think this will capture the nonlinear relationship between i1 and i2.
posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 8:52 am
Hello Linda:
My growth models has random times of observation.
I got the following error message when I did the above -
*** ERROR in Model command
The model specified with the following set of MODEL statements is not supported for TYPE = RANDOM:
My program is listed below -
i1 s1| contol1-contol4 at age1-age4;
i1sq | i1 XWITH i1;
i2| resili1-resili4 at age1-age4;
resili1 resili2 resili3 resili4 (1);
[i1* s1* i2*];
i1 with s1;
i2 ON i1 i1sq;
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - 9:04 am
Please send the full output to
Thomas Olino
posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:18 am
I ran a parallel growth curve model that used all categorical indicators. The latent factors were not specified to be categorical factors, so the analysis continued using numerical integration on the 4 dimensions.
After the solution was found, I noticed an input error in my model. After I corrected the error, I tried to re-run the analysis. However, the analysis would not and I received an error message: "THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY SPACE TO RUN THE PROGRAM ON THE CURRENT INPUT FILE...etc."
First, what would the suggested pc-hardware specifications be for the analysis? Second, any idea how the analysis would run once, but not again? Third, what would the pros and cons be (or reference) for running the analysis using Monte Carlo as the integration method?
posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:48 am
The combination of many dimensions of integration and a large sample can cause the MEMORY SPACE message - although it sounds like you haven't installed the latest update, version 3.12, which I think gives a more explicit message.
I can't say why it worked the first time and not thereafter - would have to have exact details on the two runs.
To bring down the computational demands, you can try working with fewer integration points to give an approximate ML solution, e.g.
integration = 7;
- or, as you say, use MONTECARLO integration, which might be quicker still. They should give similar results.
Kersi Antia
posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 11:39 am
Hi Bengt and Linda:
I was wondering whether it is possible to specify and estimate a Growth Mixture Model (GMM) for a parallel process model. I have data on 166 salespeoples' monthly sales performance and corresponding usage of a web-based training system and have been able to specify a parallel process growth model thus far (sales performance and website usaage as the growth processes modeled). I was wondering whether it is mathematically possible to have finite classes identified wrt performance and usage with distinct though overlapping covariates, and whether MPLUS can handle this.
Thanks for your time,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 2:12 pm
Yes, Mplus can do this.
posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 1:06 pm
HI Bengt and Linda;
I ran a growth model for two parallel processes for continuous outcome, I have doing the same thing as example 6.13 in M-plus user's guide.
1-if I want to detect the effect of first processes to the second process (cross-lagged analysis), how can I add to my program the regression between the first and the second processe?
2-it is sufficient to make only the regression between the intercepts and slope in order to mesure this effect?
3- it is logic to make the regression between intercept and slope for the same processes?
4-can I do the same analysis for the dichotomuos outcome?
thank you for your help in advance
posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 6:32 am
1. Do you want the second process to be influenced by the first, or each influencing the other? In the second case you say
s2 on i1; s1 on i2;
2. That depends on your application.
3. Yes, this can make sense.
4. Yes
posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 6:25 am
thank you for your response;
I want just to be sure that I have understand. in basic analysis (FOR EXAMPLE, LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS) if we want to see the effect the processe to the another, I make the regression between two variables (PROCESSES) (for example, detresse and satisfaction), then if I make the regression between slopes and intercepts in Grwowth model analysis for two parallel processes, that is replace the regression between variables in linear regression , if yes, can you tell me the reference to this in order to cite this in my article?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 4:17 pm
Growth factors are continuous latent variables. If you regress one on the other, it is a simple linear regression. I don't know of any special citation.
posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 5:43 am
Excuse me I think that my message wasn't clear enough, when we do two processes growth model, we do a regression between a slope and intercept and not between factors directly, my question is that is sufficient to mesure the effect between the factors (latent variables) or I must add a regression between factors in my model, for example in user's guide example 6.13 (page 89) how can I mesure the effects between the first processe (score of the Y1j) et the second ( score of the Y2j), do I add a regression between the Yij or it is sufficient to use the regression between intercept and slope, I think that is a basic question, I don't have enough information to the growth modeling, thanks you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 6:47 am
If you want to see the relationship between y1 and y2, it is common to add a residual covariance parameter. y1 WITH y2; Whether you want to do this depends on your data and your model.
posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - 7:42 am
Maggie L Liu
posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 8:19 pm
I am conducting a mediation analysis in which both the mediator and outcome are repeatedly measured (5 waves). I suppose the parallel growth model is what I'm trying to do. The outcome variable is a categorical measure with linear growth over time. I used a multiple indicator growth model for the mediator measure, because that is a multivariate measure with missing values. To assess the mediation effect, we evaluate the path from intervention (0/1 dummy) to the linear trend of the mediator, to the linear trend of the outcome. From analysis results, the mediation path is significant. My question is, I'm not able to obtain fit statistics, such as chi-square, CFI, TLI, and RMSEA. How do I get these values in Mplus?
Thank you very much for your advice!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 11, 2008 - 10:19 am
If you are not obtaining fit statistics, I assume you are using maximum likelihood estimation. You could use WLSMV and obtain fit statistics.
Bruce A. Cooper
posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 5:17 pm
Hi Linda &/or Bengt!
I'm having trouble with estimation, probably due to a small sample (as usual!), but perhaps due to my own ignorance. I have 2 symptoms each measured 7x (e.g., sleep disturbance & morning fatigue), and I want to estimate a parallel process growth model for them with MLR along the lines of ex6.13. The simple growth model for one indicates a significant linear and quadratic slope, the other just a linear slope. When I try to include the quadratic slope in the PP model, I get "NO CONVERGENCE. SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN ITERATIONS" and "THE MODEL MAY NOT BE IDENTIFIED" sorts of warnings. I've tried setting covariances between the uninteresting or nonsignificant latent variables to zero (e.g., i1 with s1, i1 with q1, s1 with q1) with no success. So, here I am "hat in hand" looking for suggestions!
Note: really small sample: 60 paired observations of patients and caregivers; I count 34 or so free parameters without fixing any. Recognizing that this is REALLY a small sample for so many estimates, I'm only looking for some fixed effects to explore/describe these two processes, so I'd be happy fixing some random effects to zero (like random slopes) if it would still allow estimation of the crossed regressions (e.g., caregiver morning fatigue on patient sleep disturbance).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 6:03 pm
You need to send the problem along with your license number to
. It is not possible to know why you are having problems without more information.
Nina L. Alesci
posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 8:20 pm
Is it possible to do a twolevel parallel process model? I tried it with a community level variable (n=60) and an individual level variable (n=3636) where individuals have been sampled from those communities. Here is my code:
TYPE = MISSING h1 TWOLEVEL;
ienfw senfw |
enfsrv1 (1); enfsrv3 (1); enfsrv5 (1);
ienfb senfb |
istgw sstgw |
The model produced this warning. THE MODEL ESTIMATION DID NOT TERMINATE NORMALLY DUE TO A NON-ZERO
Do you know what I am doing wrong?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:10 am
This is possible. Did you put the state variables on the BETWEEN list? If not, try that. If that is not it, please send your input, data, output, and license number to
posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 5:10 am
Dear Linda/Bengt,
I ran a parallel growth curve model for two latent variables of authoritative teaching based on four items each measured at three occasions. N= 900. I have missing data. I used a step by step procedure to ensure that the CFA for each variable at each occasion and for the growth models separately yielded good fit. Also the parallel model has good fit. When adding covariates this works well for observed variables (e.g. seniority - 4 categories and type of intervention -2 categories). However, when adding latent variables as covariates there is an error message saying that the model may not be identified:
The standard errors of the model parameter estimates could not be computed. The model may not be identified. Check your model. Problem involving parameter X.
When I include one latent covariate (inovat) based on 7 item, parameter x is the regression of s(lope)2 on s(slope)1. However, if I include the same latent covariate as well as one or two observed variables (intervention and gender), the problem appears in the regression of inovat on s1.
Do you have any suggestions on what the problem might be and how I can solve it?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 9:06 am
We would need to see the output or outputs and your license number at
to be able to comment on this.
Mine Yildirim
posted on Thursday, February 03, 2011 - 6:58 am
I have two questions;
1) I want to test mediating effect with parallel process LGM, but i have a clustered data. I have 3-levels, namely 1)time, 2)children, 3)school.
I could not find any previous example, article or any message about multilevel parallel process LGM for mediation analysis (in the Mplus discussion topics also). Did anybody apply this kind of analysis before? I am not sure if it is possible because even without parallel process i had some problems with multilevel LGM part. Mplus did not run without giving any error message for some models.
Is it possible to do multilevel parallel process LGM for mediation and moderation analysis with Mplus?
I appreciate it a lot if you could give some references on that topic?
Thanks beforehand for your response.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, February 03, 2011 - 5:47 pm
This should be possible in Mplus. 3-level analysis (2 levels in Mplus) has no extra problem with parallel processes. You should explore each process separately to see if you have enough school variation (and enough schools) to capture the parameters of the school level. I don't know any references. We have 3-level growth model examples in our growth modeling teaching in Topic 8 (coming up this March).
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 10:12 am
I am running a parallel-process model on cognitive and physical health outcomes, and have a question regarding the set-up of interactive effects between latent and observed variables. The observed variable is an interactive term between two categorical variables. When setting up the interaction between the latent variable and the observed interaction, do I need to include the main effects for the observed interaction?
irec - intercept memory
sadl - slope functional limitations
irecblk | irec XWITH black;
irecm8ed | irec XWITH m8ed;
irecm8e | irec XWITH blkm8e;
sadl ON irecm8e;
Or would I be able to simply include the interaction term?
irecm8e | irec XWITH blkm8e;
sadl ON irecm8e;
I cannot get (a) to converge but (b) converges without a problem. Thanks!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 2:57 pm
XWITH is used to specify interactions between latent variables and between an observed and a latent variable. Interactions between observed variables are specified using the DEFINE command.
You ask about including main effects but show two situations one of which has three interactions and one that has one interaction. I see no main effects.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Monday, February 14, 2011 - 9:14 am
Hi Linda,
Below is the entire model statement that I am using (condensed to fit here), sorry I did not clarify earlier:
irec srec |
iadl sadl |
srec ON iadl;
iadl sadl ON irec;
!irec with srec;
iadl with sadl;
irec srec iadl sadl ON
R4AGEY_B black
lthsdeg gthsdeg
ainc1 ainc2 ainc3 aass1 aass2 aass3
m8ed f8ed R4CHOK FWHTCL
irecm8e | irec XWITH m8ed;
sadl ON irecm8e;
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 14, 2011 - 6:32 pm
This looks fine. oYou are regressing sadl on an interaction and also on the corresponding two main effects, which is customary.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 9:19 am
Thank you for the input. I have two questions related to the proposed parallel process model:
1) Can you provide a source that explains how to probe interactions between a continuous latent variable and a continuos observed variable?
2) I would like to extend this parallel process model to account for NMAR data on the outcome variables. I have tried to implement Diggle-Kenward and Wu-Carroll selection adjustment and pattern-mixture adjustment to the I and S of both outcomes, but the models would not converge. I am able to successfully implement these NMAR models when only adjusting one of the outcome variables.
What potential biases would be introduced to a parallel-process model when only controlling for data NMAR on one of the outcome trajectories?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 5:22 pm
1) See the handout for Topic 3, slides 164-171.
2) If the missingness is the same for the 2 processes, then NMAR should be done for both. But perhaps NMAR for one is better than MAR - but hard to argue for in a pub. There shouldn't be a problem doing NMAR for 2 processes.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 6:26 am
Regarding 1) and in reference to the relevant slides for Topic 3, in parallel-process output, I am not given the unit variances for the initial status of the outcome variables, only the mean and standard errors for the estimated intercepts. Can these be used like the unit variances to standardize and aid in interpreting the interaction?
Also, in the handout and video you center the intercept for the single growth process at zero using the statement [
s];. In the parallel-process framework, would I want to do this for the intercept of each process? In addition, what does including the slope (s) after
Thanks for your time and helpful videos/handouts.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 5:48 pm
Regarding your second paragraph, yes, you would do this for the processes that you want to have an interaction with [i] for. You ask what [s] means inside [
s] - it
means that the mean of s is freely estimated.
Regarding your first paragraph, I don't follow you. The unit variance for the initial status can be obtained from the standardized solution. You cannot standardize by using standard errors.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 7:07 pm
When I use the ANALYSIS option TYPE=RANDOM in conjunction with the XWITH statement and request the standardized solution, I am given the following warning:
STANDARDIZED (STD, STDY, STDYX) options are not available for TYPE=RANDOM.
Request for STANDARDIZED (STD, STDY, STDYX) is ignored.
Is there a way to specify the XWITH interaction without using the TYPE=RANDOM option or another way to receive the standardized solution?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - 8:42 am
This is currently not available. But you can do it by hand - see the FAQ (right margin of the home page, bottom) with title:
"The variance of a dependent variable as a function of latent variables that have an interaction is discussed in Mooijaart and Satorra"
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 - 10:59 am
Hello again,
I am hoping to clarify the restrictions I am using on the parameters across dropout patterns in my pattern mixture parallel process model. I am using example 4 from Section 5.1.1 from the 2010 manuscript on non-ignorable dropout as a reference.
When specifying classes = c(1); and type = mixture; and %overall% in the model statement, are the means for the un-identified parameters held equal to those of the pattern corresponding to dropping out one time point later for all un-identified parameters (for both trajectories in the parallel process model)?
I would be happy to post more of my syntax if that would help. Thanks.
Nick Bishop
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 - 6:05 pm
Yes, each process would have to have its equalities of this kind.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2011 - 7:31 pm
Thanks Bengt.
Is the default assumption for the pattern mixture model provided in example 5.1.1 that the means for the un-identified parameters are held equal to the pattern corresponding to dropping out one time point later? In the Enders piece that accompanies your work on NMAR in Psychological Methods, he places a number of identifying restrictions on the pattern mixture model to produce three latent sub-groups based on patterns of missing data.
I want to be clear that without these identifying restrictions, the default in mplus is that the means of the un-identified parameters are held equal to the pattern corresponding to dropout at t + 1.
Sorry if this is redundant.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 09, 2011 - 7:36 am
No, it is not the default. The analyst has to apply the restrictions he/she deems appropriate since there are many possible choices as seen in the Demitras et al article I refer to. I just happen to like the approach I used in my Psych Meth article.
Nicholas Bishop
posted on Thursday, June 09, 2011 - 10:34 am
Using the Psychological Methods article and corresponding syntax (5.1.1), please tell me if this is correct:
The identifying restrictions constrain the effect of the slope on d1-d2 to be equal, and the effect of d1-d3 on q to be equal. For the slope constraint, the mean of patterns corresponding to d1-d2 are held equal to the mean of the pattern corresponding to dropout at d3. For the quadratic constraint, the mean of patterns corresponding to d1-d3 are held equal to the mean of the pattern corresponding to dropout at d4.
i-q on d4-d5;
i on d1 d2 d3;
s on d3;
s on d1 (1);
s on d2 (1);
q on d1 (2);
q on d2 (2);
q on d3 (2);
Thanks for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 09, 2011 - 2:08 pm
Compare your input to the pattern mixture input that is on the website with the Psych Methods article.
Dana Garbarski
posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - 6:09 am
I am running a parallel process latent growth model with two dichotomous sets of repeated measures and wlsmv estimation. The univariate latent growth models show that each of these curves have intercepts, linear slopes, and quadratic slopes (one curve has no variance in the quadratic). I was hoping to be able to regress the linear slope of one curve on the other to say something about how the two processes are related over time (I expect that growth in one of the processes is driving growth in the other), but I'm not quite sure how the quadratic slopes should be modeled to fit into this interpretation, especially since one of the quadratic slopes has zero variance and is thus not correlated with the other intercepts and slopes.
Any thoughts or advice would be most appreciated!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - 12:59 pm
It is hard to work with a model that's predicting from a linear and a quadratic slope because those 2 growth factors are not separately interpretable. In contrast, I can imagine that the intercept of one process influences the 2 slope factors of the other.
It is ok to have predictors of a growth factor with zero residual variance - you may still find a signficant predictor. This happens quite frequently.
Caroline Vancraeyveldt
posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 5:19 am
Dear Linda and Bengt,
I am currently struggling with the fit of a parallel proces growth model. Both seperate growth models have a good fit, but when we put them together, the fit of the "global" model is not good. Do you have suggestions to solve this problem, or the reasons for the occurence of this problem? Is it possible that the two outcomes are too highly correlated? (correlation of the two slopes was .70).
Thank you in advance!
Kind regards,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 11:51 am
It may be that you need residual covariances across processes. I would ask for modification indices to explore this.
Caroline Vancraeyveldt
posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 - 12:26 am
Thank you for your response.
We have tried to improve the model fit by following the modification indices. However, the correlation between slopes remains extremely high (.90). Can we report this, or is this comparable to multicollinearity?
Kind regards,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 - 9:47 am
Multicollinearity refers to high correlations among predictors not outcomes.
Paraskevas Petrou
posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 - 1:59 am
Dear Mplus users,
I'm working on a growth model of moderated mediation with a 3-wave dataset and I have some questions:
1. My 2 interaction terms are between the intercept of one variable and the slope of another one. Should I specify this as:
Interaction | s1 XWITH i6 ?
2. Many of my slopes should not follow necessarily an 1-2-3 fashion, but most likely 1-2-1 or 1-2-2. If for 1-2-3 I use 0-1-2 as factor loadings, what should the factor loadings be for 1-2-1 and 1-2-2?
3. Some of my variables should not have slope but only intercept. Does it simply suffice to enter
in the model?
Any help would be very much appreciated, thanx in advance!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 - 10:08 am
1. Yes.
2. For 1 2 2, use 0 1 1. For 1 2 1, use 0 1 *.
3. Yes.
Paraskevas Petrou
posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 - 6:17 am
Thank you Linda.
A couple of more questions regarding your advice:
1. Using 0 1 * as factor loadings results in the following error:
Error in parsing line:
2. If next to i and s I also specify a "q" (quadratic term), don't I actually test the above question?
3. One term of my interactions is a variable measured three times which I assume to be stable over time. There are two ways to model that: i) Specify its i and s and constrain s to be equal to 0 or ii) Make a latent factor with the three measurments loading onto the factor. What method is the most preferable?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 - 2:13 pm
1. Don't say x_T3@*. Instead say x_T3*.
2. A general quadratic model won't be identified with only 3 time points, but needs restrictions like zero var-covs among growth factors.
3. You can use i | ...., which is the same as a factor with unit fixed loadings. Intercept only growth models are perfectly fine.
posted on Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 4:35 pm
Hi Dr. Muthen,
I would like to run a parallel processes LGM, and I have some questions:
1: do I have to test each growth process separately before doing the parallel processes?
2: if one of the individual growth model has no sig. mean slope but has sign. variance, can it still be used in the parallel processes model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 10:01 am
It is a good idea to test each model separately before estimating a model with both processes. If the mean of the slope growth factor is not signficant, this means that there is no development over time for the process.
posted on Thursday, May 02, 2013 - 3:17 pm
Hi Dr. Muthen,
I have a follow-up question on the parallel processes LGCM. One of the model does not show a sig. mean growth factor, and the other one does. When analyzing them in the parallel process, both slopes are sig. correlated as well as their intercepts. I am just wondering whether the results are valid for interpretation.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 02, 2013 - 9:05 pm
I think that is ok.
Dayuma Vargas
posted on Sunday, December 22, 2013 - 9:35 pm
I ran a parallel process LGM with both processes having positive linear slope, a negative quadratic slope, and a positive cubic term. I found that the linear terms covary significantly and positively with one another, which means that individuals who show faster gains over time in x show faster gains over time in y as well. The quadratic terms covary significantly and negatively with one another, but I am having some difficulty trying to interpret this. Would you be able to advice me on this? Thank you.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, December 23, 2013 - 5:02 pm
It is hard to give a separate interpretation of linear and quadratic growth factors since they interact.
Neha Goyal
posted on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 4:19 pm
I have two outcomes which I seperately modeled. The best unconditional model for one variable was a piecewise model with one linear piece from 0-8 months and second linear piece from 8-60 months. Furthermore, I had to set the slope variance of the first linear piece to zero since I encountered a non-positive definite covariance matrix. The best unconditional model for the second variable was a piecewise model with one linear piece from 0-18 months and the second linear piece from 18-60 months. In other words, they have different growth trajectories. My questions are
1) If the variance of one piece for a variable is zero, does it even make sense to do a parallel process model.
2) How do you do a parallel process model with two variables with different piecewise growth trajectories, if at all?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 5:36 pm
1) You still have variance in the intercept and therefore you want to correlate them over processes.
2) Just correlate all the growth factor that have variances.
Myung Lee
posted on Monday, December 22, 2014 - 3:44 pm
I estimated a parallel processes latent growth curve model with two continuous outcomes measured at three time points. I would like to study the correlation between the two slope factors. In the model, slope loadings on the first factor were specified as linear (0, 1, 2) and those on the second factor were specified as nonlinear using a free time score at T2 (0, *, 1).
Given that the two slope factors have different shapes of the growth trajectories, would I still be able to interpret the slope factor correlation (e.g., r = .70) as: the rate of change in the first outcome from T1 to T3 traveled together with the rate of change in the second outcome from T1 to T3?
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, December 22, 2014 - 5:32 pm
I think so.
Stefanie Schmidt
posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 10:07 am
Hi, when I tried to run a growth model with an ordinal variable (scaled 1-6) using the categorical option I got the following error message: The categorical variables in the growth model do not have the same number of categories. Use the CATEGORICAL option to allow the number of categories to
differ for maximum likelihood estimation. Problem with: I S Do you know what went wrong?
Another question is if it is possible to test 4 potential mediators (2 continous, 2 ordinal) between an intervention (binary, randomized) and a continous outcome variable within one model using parallel process latent growth curve modeling (do you know any example)?
Thank you, Stefanie
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 1:22 pm
Q1. See page 544 in the V7 UG
Q2. Yes, but I can't think of an example right now. Check our papers under Growth Modeling.
Danielle Kingdon
posted on Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 11:02 am
I am working with a parallel process latent growth curve model, with two continuous outcomes measured at four time points. Reviewers have requested that I provide an analysis of how the common variance in the two outcomes is changing across time and how variables predict this common variance. Are you aware of an analysis in Mplus that could answer this question?
Thank you in advance for your response.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 6:19 pm
You see that in the Estimated Model part of the output when requesting the Residual and standardized options of the Output command.
Danielle Kingdon
posted on Sunday, August 21, 2016 - 11:16 am
Thank you for your reply. From the Estimated Model part of the output I can see the covariances of outcomes 1 and 2 at each time point. I notice that the covariances are decreasing over time. Is there a way to model the predictors of the covariance at each time point? Also, is it possible to model the predictors of the non-shared or error variance in order to understand why the trajectories become increasingly differentiated over time?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, August 21, 2016 - 4:49 pm
It is not easy, but you could try the Constraint=z; option where z is a predictor that can be used in Model Constraint. See the QTL example in the UG.
Danielle Kingdon
posted on Sunday, August 21, 2016 - 5:06 pm
Thank you!
Liu BAI
posted on Friday, November 03, 2017 - 8:02 am
Dear Linda and Bengt,
I'm running a parallel growth curve model to test if two people change together. My model statements are as follows and I have 2 questions.
ii is|
mi ms|
x1976-x1979 PWITH x1966-x1969;
is with mi;
ms with ii;
First Question: When I test if one's intercept could impact the other one's slope using:
is on mi;
ms on ii;
I get a warning saying that: "THE LATENT VARIABLE COVARIANCE MATRIX (PSI) IS NOT POSITIVE DEFINITE."
But if I change it to WITH statement as above, the model fits good with no warning. I wonder why this happened. And, do I have to use ON statement if I'm not interested in the effects from one to the other?
Second Question: I wonder if it is possible to get the covariances between the two slope for each dyad, because I'm interested how this co-change cause influence or influenced by other variables? I tried SAVE = FSCORES, but it only gave the variance for each variable no the covariances.
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 03, 2017 - 5:17 pm
Q1: Send the output with the warning to Support along with your license number.
Q2: You don't have to use ON.
Q3: Use TECH4.
Liu BAI
posted on Friday, November 03, 2017 - 6:16 pm
Thank you for your reply!
About my third question. I think I didn't make it clear enough.
I have two people in the same family and their cortisol variables. I want to see if these two family members have similar cortisol patterns across the day, therefore I used the parallel growth curve model.
Now I wonder if I can get a score measuring the synchrony between the two family members ( (i.e., each family has their only score)? I'm think the the slope covariances for each family. Maybe something like Empirical Bayes covariance. I wonder if it is possible?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, November 04, 2017 - 4:10 pm
In your model, the covariance between the slopes is not a random parameter that varies across units (families). It is assumed to be a regular, fixed parameter. Therefore, you cannot get an estimate of a covariance score for each family.
posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - 2:58 am
I have a quick question about interpreting the output of a parallel process model in MPlus. I have two continuous variables (Variable A and Variable B) both measured at 3 time points over the life course. If I had a model like this:
i_varA s_varA |
i_varB s_varB |
s_varA ON i_varB ;
s_varB ON i_varA ;
i_varA WITH i_varB ;
s_varA WITH s_varB ;
And the output showed a significant negative relationship between the slope of variable A and the slope of variable B, how could I interpret this. Does this mean that as the slope of variable A increases over time, the slope of variable B decreases?
Thanks in advance for your help with this!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - 2:43 pm
The estimate says that the residual covariance between the A and B slopes is negative. This means that the variation in the slopes that is not explained by the intercepts is negatively correlated (due to left-out influences that end up in the residuals).
Hannah Schacter
posted on Thursday, August 02, 2018 - 9:23 am
I am running a parallel process model w/ 2 continuous variables measured 3 times. I 1st specified a non-directional model, including cov b/t intercepts and slopes. Var A decreases over time (-.072, p<.001), & Var B increases over time (.056, p<.001).
I_varA S_varA|
I_varB S_varB|
I_varA I_varB WITH S_varA S_varB;
I_varA S_varB WITH I_varA S_varB;
I then re-ran the model w/ directional effects.
I_varA S_varA|
I_varB S_varB|
I_varA S_varA pwith I_varB S_varB;
S_varA on I_varA I_varB;
S_varB on I_varB I_varA;
But, now the slope for varA changes sign-it's positive (.121, p=.001), & the positive slope for varB increased (.114, p=.006). Is this b/c the slopes are now conditional effects (i.e., when intercept is 0) given the inclusion of timeXintercept effects? Or is there another reason for the change in size/direction of the slopes?
Thank you.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 02, 2018 - 2:08 pm
Perhaps you are looking at the intercept of the slope - which is printed in the regular output - instead of the mean of the slope - which is printed in TECH4.
Yaqiong Wang
posted on Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 5:08 pm
I'm running LGM on two processes: academic achievement and self-efficacy. The linear trajectory fits well with self-efficacy, but there's a drop in academic achievement at the last time point (time 4). I'm thinking of fitting a quadratic term to academic achievement and use the code below:
i1 s1 |
i2 s2 q |
s1 on i2;
s2 on i1;
I have two questions regarding this model:
1. Is this the correct way to add a quadratic term? Do I need to add relationships between q and i1, or other things?
2. If I would like to examine the relationship between the slopes of AM and GPA, should I add a statement such as "s1 on s2"? How would adding a "q" change the relationship between the two linear slopes?
Thank you very much for your help!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 6:00 pm
The specifications of the growth models are fine. It is probably easiest to simply correlate all 5 factors. It is hard to argue that one slope predicts another.
Yaqiong Wang
posted on Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 7:40 pm
Thank you for you reply! Based on what you just said, if I would like to see if the intercept and slope of process 1 predict the intercept and slope of process 2, can I specify my model like this:
i1 s1 |
i2 s2 q |
s2 on s1;
i2 on i1;
q on s1;
I felt kind of confused about how to build my model after adding "q"
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2018 - 5:49 am
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|Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the monthly Lost In Trancelation series at Bikkuri, DJ Robb Blak (Roxy, Backstage, Liquid, Suite B) was at the podium upon my midnight arrival.
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Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago.
On April 19, he confessed during a Shin Bet interrogation that for months, he had been collecting intelligence on senior Israeli officials - including Olmert and a number of Knesset members.
Bashir met with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in September 2006, and said that the assassination was meant to avenge the deaths of Palestinian civilians.
Bashir was indicted Thursday in the Jerusalem District Court.
Duncan Mclean, head of 'Doctors Without Borders' in the region, told Israel Radio, "I don't think embarrassed would be the right word. We are very sad for Bashir who has been working for us for almost six years. But we would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time in the sense that all our staff is hired for professional reasons and I don't think our organization can be held liable for every aspect of their life."
If a humanitarian-medical organization would say that about Dr. Baruch Goldstein, don't you think they would immediatly lose their legitimacy in the eyes of the world (and media), yet they can say that about Mazab Bashir?
Also, this is just another reminder of how Palestinian terrorists use "medicine" as a cover, be it smuggling terrorists, bombs and weapons in ambualnces, or inflitrating Doctors without Borders...


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FOOD- THE DISH- Labor of Love: Restaurants brace themselves for '09
Dish Photo of the Year: Bel Rio owners Jim Baldi, Dave Simpson, and Gareth Weldon pose like rock stars in front of their Belmont eatery and night club, which opened in December.
Given the state of the economy, one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 Year in Food was how many brave folks decided to take the plunge and open a restaurant or some type of eatery. Still, the local restaurant world is bracing itself for 2009, which appears to be shaping up to be a rough one economically.
But as one local restaurateur pointed out this year, following the auctioning off of OXO on Water Street, which went for a mere $3,000 after the owners ran into some financial problems, starting a restaurant isn't necessarily all about the Benjamins.
"Everybody thinks you get rich in the restaurant business, but you don't," said Hot Cake's Keith Rosenfeld, who had hoped to score some catering equipment at the auction. "It's often more a labor of love and a way to have a job that let's you stay in Charlottesville."
But Rosenfeld said it had become a tougher playing field.
"We used to have very few good restaurants," he said. "... but now we have many, plus tons of chains. In my opinion, Charlottesville has been over-restauranted for some time, and I'm afraid we may see more of these auctions before the economy turns around."
So far, there hasn't been a rash of auctions, though Ponderosa's equipment was auctioned off soon after Rosenfeld's comments, but the economy hasn't turned around yet either.
But enough of this gloomy talk! On to the Dish stories of the year...
Chain reaction
Given how strong the local food movement has become in 2008, it's only fitting that our own Chipotle Mexican Grill in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, one of 700 stores nationwide, became the first chain restaurant to use 100 percent locally produced meat. Working with Polyface Farm in Swoope (about 48 miles away), which has been supplying fresh ingredients to local restaurants for several years, Polyface is supplying the 350 pounds of pork that are gobbled up in the Charlottesville store everyday.
The Eater eats
We knew that the debut of our new restaurant review column, The Eater, would stir things up (the Post has called us "insanely committed foodies," after all)– we just didn't realize it would happen so fast and with such fury.
Our first review from Ned Oldham (Sarah Jacobson and Kate Malay would join the stable later), of Maya, was bombarded with comments on the Hook's website, both good and bad. A local website even took the time to track down Oldham's bio and post his photo in attempt to warn restaurant owners. Sheesh, you'd think we'd hired an assassin.
Finally, a very angry someone claiming to be associated with Maya stormed into the Hook's editorial office, insisted that the restaurant uses fresh whipped cream (Oldham questioned that), cursed us, and left.
Conclusion: we are insanely committed foodies!
Shrink scrapped
For many restaurants on the Downtown Mall– believe it or not, there are 60 restaurants and eateries on or around the Mall– the $7.5 million Mall re-bricking project that is now underway was a source of anxiety during 2008, especially for those restaurants with outdoor patios, who will temporarily loose those spaces while the bricks are replaced.
Late in the planning stage, restaurants like Miller's, Sal's, and Rapture dodged a bullet when they had the sense to speak out against a proposal to close down all patio spaces until the project was finished in May, and then shrink them all to 700 square feet.
"I agree with those merchants who say that's ridiculous and that's been scrapped," said Charlottesville mayor Dave Norris after hearing their complaints. " Once your portion of the Mall is finished, and once café season is open you can have your cafés."
As an added measure, Norris said the city was waiving all café fees for the 2009 season.
"We're eliminating it just to ease the load merchants are facing," he said.
Food mag fight!
A local food publication called Flavor magazine arrived this year, only to be sued by a publishing company called Edible Communities Inc., which has plans to start a new publication here in January called Edible Blue Ridge.
The company accused Flavor's publisher, Melissa Harris, of stealing their "trade dress" after she briefly entertained the idea of working with the company. But Harris denied the charges, said the company knew she was starting her own magazine, and claims they were merely trying to "take her out." Still, the suit cost Harris thousands, as she chose to settle rather than fight the big company in court.
However, veteran journalist Steve Russell, who will be Edible Blue Ridge's publisher, takes issue with Harris' claims, believing she did in fact appropriate much from Edible's concept and that the company was simply protecting its interests.
But Edible wasn't finishing fighting for what it considers its intellectual property. In December, the company went after blogger Jenee Libby, who launched a site called Edible Cville a while back, demanding that she change the name of her blog.
"We'll see what happens...I'm still reeling that a lil' ol' blog with seven subscribers would garner such attention," Libby told the Hook.
Outback Lodge a winner
Just when Outback Lodge owner Terry Martin thought everything he had worked for had been lost, Lady Luck intervened.
"I was the brokest I've ever been," Martin told the Hook. He was also reeling from bad publicity and a whole lot of police attention stemming from a November 2007 shooting in his parking lot after a hip-hop event at his new downstairs dance hall. The phone had been cut off. He couldn't pay to renew his liquor license, and the $15,000 he'd recently spent renovating the Outback Lodge appeared wasted, as he was drowning in debt.
Then he bought a lottery ticket at the Shell station down the road, and it turned out to be a $100,000 winner. And he immediately put the money back into the business, prompting many to wonder why he didn't just pocket the cash and walk away.
"It was meant to be," said Martin of the Outback. "It's been here 17 years, and we have a better music line up than a lot of places. It's known nationally, and rock musicians say, 'Finally, a real rock club.'"
The Tavern gets tested
The local restaurant scene got a wake-up call when The Tavern, the long-lived breakfast joint on Emmet Street where "students, tourists, and townpeople" meet, became the place where the salmonella bacterium met with a long history of health code violations.
Health inspection records showed that over 60 food handling and preparation violations had been served to The Tavern since January 2003, including 13 during a single inspection in 2007. Dish then took the opportunity to look through the inspection records, which are available online, and we were shocked to see that The Tavern wasn't the only restaurant guilty of multiple violations.
"We had a bad history of violations, no question," Tavern owner Shelly Gordon told Dish. "We've lost business, our reputation has been hurt, and frankly I'm embarrassed by it, but we hope to regain the public's trust."
Bel Rio (Belmont)
Calvino Cafe (West Main Market)
Asian Specialty (Water Street)
Monticello Cafe (Monticello visitor center)
Winky's (Angus Road)
Boylan Heights (The Corner)
Topeka's Steakhouse N' Saloon (Pantops)
Cappellino's Crazy Cakes (Downtown Mall)
The Local (Belmont)
High Tide Burrito (Forest Lakes)
Coffee on the Corner (The Corner)
Para Coffee (The Corner)
Just Curry (on The Corner and in Transit Center)
ZamZam Kabob (Route 29 North)
Si Tapas (West Main)
Pesto Mediterranean Grill (Crozet)
Al Hamraa (the Ix building)
Olivaté (Albemarle Square)
Guadalajara (location #4 on Pantops)
La Michoacana Deli (High Street)
Nicola's Veggies (Downtown Mall)
The Box (Downtown Mall)
Ventana (Downtown Mall)
Devil's Backbone Brewery (Nelson County)
The Red Hen (Lexington)
Just Java (Lake Monticello)
Crozet Coffee Bar (Crozet)
Carpe Donut (all around town)
Great Scott's Gourmet Popcorn (250 West)
Rita's (The Corner)
The Upstairs (Downtown Mall)
Aroma's (Barracks Road)
Boylan Heights (The Corner)
Savour (Route 29)
Arch's Frozen Yogurt on Emmet Street (Route 29)
Milano (South Street)
Steak-Out Char-Broiled Delivery (Route 29)
Arirang Restaurant (Fontaine Avenue)
New China (Crozet)
Tropical Smoothie Café (Rio Shopping Center)
The Boathouse (Route 29)
El Dorado (Preston Avenue)
Brasserie Montiel (Commonwealth Drive)
Orbit Billiards (The Corner)
Bohème (Market Street)
Cafe Lajoi (Forest Lakes)
Zandi's (Route 29 North)
Mesob (The Corner)
Saxx Jazz Club (Belmont)
Fat Daddy's (Albemarle Square)
Brix Marketplace (Route 53)
OXO (Water Street)
Ludwig's Restaurant & Lounge (Fontaine Avenue)
Mama Mia (Preston Avenue)
Ponderosa (Pantops)
Spry's BBQ (West Main)
Dahatchi (Albemarle Square)
Casella's (Emmet Street)
Maverick (Route 29)
Big Jim's (Angus Road)
Kiki Café and Bar (Downtown Mall)
Pig Daddy's BBQ (Avon Street)
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asia specialty is on market street.
maverick closed in 2006.
I still miss The Hardware Store.
The new Cafe at Monticello visitor center is absolutely fabulous. Not only is the view spectacular but the service is impeccable and the food is splendid. After hiking the trail; I stopped in for a cappucino made with Escalara espresso and a Raspberry Shortbread bar. All hikers/walkers of the trail stop by the new visitor center.


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How I broke Queatrix' encryption:
- I started by writing up a small program to do frequency analysis on varying chunk sizes. Since the size of the file (951 bytes) is only divisible by 3 and 317, I checked for chunk sizes of 1 and 3 bytes. There were a total of 57 1-byte patterns, and 260 3-byte ones, so I assumed that it was a relatively simple substitution/modification cypher which only operated on single bytes with a one-byte key.
- Looking at the output from my frequency calculator, I noticed that all of the results had one of the following hex characters in their four most least significant bits: 2, 3, 6, a, b, e and f. Looking at the binary representations of these numbers revealed that in every case, the 2nd least significant bit was set. I presumed this to mean that the data encoded was 7-bit ASCII, with a 1 inserted there for no apparent reason.
- Then I looked at the most frequently occuring character: 0xFB with 129 occurences. Since I was working under the assumption that I was dealing with an english-language plaintext, it was a safe bet that this was the space character.
- Examining the binary representation of 0xFB, I noticed that it is an inverted mirror image of the space character (0x20). Thus, my first guess at your encryption method was that you were simply NOTing the bytes and reversing the order of bits.
- I then turned my attention to the next most frequent characters, 0x9A, 0xBA, 0x4A and 0xAA. Still under the assumption that the plaintext was in English, I assumed that three of those four represented the three most common letters in English: 'e', 't', and 'a'.
- I applied my first guess at your encryption algorithm to these characters, and realized that they didn't match up, which showed me that I was incorrect in my guess.
- Looking at the binary representations of all of the above (plaintext and NOTted values), I realized that 'a' and 't' differ by one bit, as do 'e' and 'a'. Looking at the encrypted values, I realized that 0x9A and 0xBA differ by one bit, as do 0xBA and 0xAA. I thus assumed that 0xBA was the encrypted version of 'a'. With that assumption, I also assumed that the more frequent of the two remaining (0x9A) represented 'e', while 0xAA represented 't'.
- Upon realizing that the NOTed versions of the encrypted characters had the same number of set/unset bits as their plaintext equivalents, I realized that what was most likely happening was that the bits were being swapped around.
- To determine where the swapping occured, I wrote all four plaintexts in binary form one above the other, and then did the same thing with the NOTed encrypted values, to get the following:
Code:00000100 00100000 01100101 01100101 01000101 01100001 01010101 01101001
- I then looked to see which columns were unique, and where they appeared on each side. I found that column 4 in the encrypted table moved to column 4 in plaintext, and that columns 3 and 6 switched places. Columns 1, 2, 7 and 8 seemed to stay in place.
- I then wrote a quick program to test my theory by having it swap columns 3&6 and 4&5 in the file, and realized when I looked at the output that only some characters were decrypted (such as 'a', 't', etc.).
- After modifying my application to swap colums 1&7 and 2&8, I ran it again and got the plain-text. Voila.


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At last, we have completed the endless first round of the 2007 Sportshuman Of The Year tournament. It only took a month. Now we're down the nitty-gritty: The Elite Eight.
All seeds held in the first round, which just proves the seeding committee did a good job. (Note: This does not actually prove this.) So the big dawgs are all set for the second round ... and we've got a tough one right off the bat.
No. 4 Seed: Elijah Dukes
Explored the possibilities lent to us by cellular technology.
Impregnated a foster child.
Became a sports radio star.
You divorced, dawg.
No. 5 Seed Gilbert Arenas
Dunked off a trampoline.
Stole a joke.
Helped you with your love life.
Talked to us.
So, who makes the Final Four? Vote, vote like the wind.


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