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Re: st: data file for use with sem()
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William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: data file for use with sem()
Date
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 06:34:42 -0800
It is documented in the help files and [SEM]. You can enter the data manually, or you can store the correlation matrix and save a vector of means and standard deviations to set things up that way.
HTH,
Billy
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On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:59, Robert Long <[email protected]> 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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