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Apr 25, 2014, 11:11:27 AM4/25/14

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Hi!

I am new to Stata, and trying to estimate a Structural Equation Model. The model runs fine when I let exogenous latent variable 1 influence endogenous latent variable 1, and letting exogenous latent variable 2, influence endogenous latent variable 2. However, the estimation keeps running so that I have to manually stop it by pressing "break", if I let exogenous latent variable 1 influence endogenous latent variable 2, and letting exogenous latent variable 2, influence endogenous latent variable 1, i.e. the other way around.

There are only these four latent variables.

Why is this happening? I have fixed the variances of the two exogenous latent variables to 1, as one should.