Utrecht: First Dutch Mplus User meeting
On October the 27th (9.00 a.m.- 4.30 p.m.) the first meeting of the ’Mplus user’s group: Exploring the boundaries of Mplus‘ will take place at Utrecht University.
The aim of the Mplus user group is to bring together users of Mplus and to share information, learn about new developments and discuss solutions for typical Mplus problems. We will organize such meetings twice a year for all interested researchers (applied researchers, statisticians & methodologists). The entire day will be in english.
Every user-meeting will start with a key-note presentation in combination with a practical. In the afternoon, two or three ’thirty-minute’ presentations will discuss developments in Mplus. The remainder of the day is scheduled for discussing Mplus problems and solutions.
Every researcher can shortly present a problem, error message or other modeling issue with the audience, and receive instant feedback.
Registration is possible by sending an email to Rens van de Schoot: a.g.j.vandeschoot@uu.nl
In order to cover the organizational costs, participation costs are 50,-
More information can be found on www.tiny.cc/mplus.
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Preliminary program 27th October:
09:00-10:30 Key-note: Prof. dr. Joop Hox
Joop Hox will talk about Mplus version 6 which allows for Bayesian data
analysis. In particular, he will discuss the differences between
handling missing data using Full Information Maximum Likelihood (the
default option of Mplus) and multiple imputation of plausible values
using Bayesian estimation (ESTIMATOR = BAYES;). Moreover, Bayesian data
analysis in general will be discussed including how to chose priors
(MODEL PRIORS;), posterior results (POINT = MEDIAN/MEAN/MODE;) and when
to use the option Bayesian in the fist place. During the computer
practical we will practice Bayesian imputation and estimation.
10.45 – 12.00 Short presentations (three minutes):
You can register for such a presentation by sending us an e-mail. Please
let us know the topic of your ‘problem’ so we can plan the meeting
according to different topics.
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch (not included)
13:30 – 15:00 Thirty-minute presentations:
ESEM: apart from confirmatory analyses, Mplus features the possibility
to do Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling. The possibilities and
benefits are illustrated with factor analysis models.
How to conduct mediation analyses in Mplus using the MODEL INDIRECT
command
How to deal with inequality constraints between regression coefficients
in Mplus (MODEL CONSTRAINT) using the parametric bootstrap procedure
(MONTECARLO).
15:00 – 16:30 Short presentations (three minutes):
You can register for such a presentation by sending us an e-mail. Please
let us know the topic of your ‘problem’ so we can plan the meeting
according to different topics.
