Useful Links

Note: These links last pruned 2025-09-03. 

Mplus

Muthén  & Muthén, statmodel.com

Mplus Demo Version

Mplus Users Guide (PDF) (HTML)

Mplus Discussion  (closed since 2020 but still has good content)

UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education 

Resources to help you learn and use Mplus

Singer & Willer ALDA (2003) examples

Making an Mplus data file from Stata or SAS or SPSS

Using Mplus from Stata, R, SPSS and SAS

Stata and Mplus

runmplus.ado 

SPSS and Mplus

N2MPLUS is a free Windows software program from Daniel Soper that converts Excel and SPSS files into Mplus-compatible datasets and syntax. I have't used it but it looks very nice

R and Mplus

MplusAutomation by Michael Hallquist. Link via statamodel.com   

Item Response Theory

IRT Models in Mplus (www.statmodel.com)

Frank Baker's online IRT text (pdf)

Longitudinal Data Analysis

LDA reading list from the University of Cambridge Mplus and (workshop outline)

Rens van de Schoot, Marit Sijbrandij, Sonja D. Winter, Sarah Depaoli & Jeroen K. Vermunt (2016): The GRoLTS-Checklist: Guidelines for Reporting on Latent Trajectory Studies, Structural Equation Modeling (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2016.1247646)

Software and Utilities (Windows)

Smartdraw is a nice line drawing program for making path diagrams

Excalidraw is a less formal but fun line drawing program