Data example below. SIN is the unique ID. Agemonths is the age in months of the infant when the follow up visits actually occurred and then I have the length/height measurements in cm.
Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex clear input int SIN double(agemonths0 agemonths1 agemonths6 agemonths12 length0 length1 length6 length12) 3 .19726027397260273 2.0712328767123287 6.641095890410958 12.23013698630137 51 58 70 73.5 25 .39452054794520547 1.380821917808219 10.84931506849315 . 51 54.4 . . 46 .6246575342465753 .9205479452054794 7.035616438356164 17.49041095890411 49 54.4 75.1 79.7 70 0 1.117808219178082 5.7534246575342465 16.306849315068494 50 53 61 74.5 end
For reference, I have shown the code for my unconstrained model for length below.
My question is – in the SEM framework, is it possible to include the actual time a measurement was taken, in this case the data contained in the agemonths variable instead of constraining the slope factor loadings to 0, 1, 6, and 12?
Code:
sem (length0 <- Intercept@1 Slope@0) /// (length1 <- Intercept@1 Slope@1 ) /// (length6 <- Intercept@1 Slope@6) /// (length12 <- Intercept@1 Slope@12), /// latent(Intercept Slope) /// means(Intercept Slope) noconstant iterate(10) method(mlmv) /// cov(e.length0*e.length1) cov(e.length0*e.length6) cov(e.length0*e.length12) cov(e.length6*e.length12) ///
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