Mplus Base Program and Combination Add-On by Muthén & Muthén
Mplus is a comprehensive software environment for latent variable modeling and structural equation modeling (SEM). The Base Program provides a unified, syntax-driven workflow and an approachable graphical interface for building, estimating, and comparing a wide range of models used in the social, behavioral, health, and education sciences.
What the Base Program offers:
- Core modeling: path analysis, confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis, SEM, mediation and moderation, and latent growth/longitudinal models.
- Broad data support: continuous, binary, ordinal, nominal, count, censored, and zero-inflated outcomes, with straightforward handling of missing data.
- Estimation options: maximum likelihood (including robust variants), weighted least squares (e.g., for categorical data), and Bayesian estimation.
- Practical workflow: reproducible syntax, helpful diagnostics and fit indices, output suitable for publication, and a diagrammer for path models.
What the Combination Add-On adds:
- Multilevel modeling: two- and three-level models for clustered data (e.g., students within classes, patients within clinics), random effects, and contextual effects.
- Mixture and latent class modeling: latent class analysis, growth mixture modeling, latent transition analysis, and related heterogeneity modeling.
- Survival and event-history analysis: models for time-to-event data, including options for discrete- and continuous-time settings.
- Complex survey features: support for sampling weights, clustering, and stratification to produce design-consistent estimates.
Why choose this package:
- One modeling language for many analyses, reducing the need to switch tools as questions become more complex.
- Scales from simple regression to advanced mixture, multilevel, and time-to-event models in the same project.
- Widely used in academic and applied research, with extensive documentation and example code to accelerate learning.
Platform availability: Windows and macOS.
License: Commercial, with academic and student options typically available from the developer.
Mplus Base Program and Combination Add-On is developed by Muthen & Muthen and is used by 3 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 7.0 and 7.4.
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