Jumpstart Mplus for absolute beginners Tim Croudace 1) Senior Lecturer (Psychometric Epidemiology) 2) Dept of Health Career Scientist (Public Health) Department of Psychiatry Newnham College February 2008 ESRC Funded Project Training in Applied Psychometrics
Convenors: 1) Prof Susan Golombok * Director, Centre for Family Research 2) Prof John Rust The Psychometrics Centre Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Demonstrator Dr Jon Heron Head of Statistics, ALSPAC, University of Bristol * Fellow of Newnham College and our host
Avoiding footfalls in the foothills of latent variable country
…can’t see the wood for all the trees?!
FCUK Electron diagram...
FCU(k)XY modelling diagram... X covariates F factors C classes Y continuous indicators U categorical indicators