"Last known convergence" models included in estimating subgroup and group models?

[Henry Whitfield]

Hi Katie,

Can you say if and how participants that only reached a "Last known convergence" model,  are included in estimating subgroup and group models?

Or are they just excluded?

Many thanks,

Henry

[Katie Gates]

Hi Henry, 

Great question. 

They usually did contribute to identifying group-level and subgroup-level models. This note means that when doing the individual-level search, a model didn't converge. In this case, the last path added is removed, and if the model converges we keep that model. So this person may have fewer paths due to this, which is why we alert the user. 

Hope this helps, 

Katie