Covariance as input in mplusAutomation

[Chunhua]

Good morning,
Do you know if it is possible to use covariance matrix instead of raw data to run models in mplusAutomation?
Thank you!
Best,
Chunhua Cao

[michael.hallquist]

I don't believe we've designed the mplusObject to support this explicitly, but I think you should be able to get this to work if you specify the DATA section along the lines of:

mplusObject(

  DATA="TYPE IS covariance; NOBSERVATIONS=100; FILE IS mycov.dat;", 

  rdata=NULL

)

Best,

Michael