TITLE:
Eq 10b.8: Piecewise Session Slopes by Quadratic Burst
Three-Level Model for the Variance for Symptoms
DATA:
FILE = MPLUS_Chapter10b.csv;
FORMAT = FREE;
DEFINE:
b1sq = burst1*burst1;
VARIABLE:
NAMES = PersonID burst session symptoms posaff slope12 slope26 burst1 b1or2;
USEVARIABLES = symptoms slope12 slope26 burst1 b1sq;
MISSING = ALL (-9999);
CLUSTER = PersonID burst;
WITHIN = slope12 slope26;
BETWEEN = (burst) burst1 b1sq;
ANALYSIS:
ESTIMATOR = ML;
PROCESSORS = 4;
TYPE = THREELEVEL RANDOM;
MODEL:
%WITHIN%
symptoms;
slope1 | symptoms ON slope12;
slope2 | symptoms ON slope26;
%BETWEEN burst%
symptoms slope1@0 slope2@0;
lin | symptoms ON burst1;
quad | symptoms ON b1sq;
slope1 slope2 ON burst1 (bLsdif12 bLsdif26);
slope1 slope2 ON b1sq (bQsdif12 bQsdif26);
%BETWEEN PersonID%
[symptoms slope1 slope2 lin quad] (int bslope12 bslope26 blin bquad);
symptoms slope1@0 slope2@0 lin@0 quad@0;
MODEL CONSTRAINT:
NEW(est1-est10);
est1 = bslope12*1 + bLsdif12*0 + bQsdif12*0;
est2 = bslope12*1 + bLsdif12*1 + bQsdif12*1;
est3 = bslope12*1 + bLsdif12*2 + bQsdif12*4;
est4 = bslope12*1 + bLsdif12*3 + bQsdif12*9;
est5 = bslope12*1 + bLsdif12*4 + bQsdif12*16;
est6 = bslope26*1 + bLsdif26*0 + bQsdif26*0;
est7 = bslope26*1 + bLsdif26*1 + bQsdif26*1;
est8 = bslope26*1 + bLsdif26*2 + bQsdif26*4;
est9 = bslope26*1 + bLsdif26*3 + bQsdif26*9;
est10 = bslope26*1 + bLsdif26*4 + bQsdif26*16;