Can MPLUS do a test of multivariate normality, or is that only available in Lisrel?

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Robert Thomas Brennan

Daniel, at the risk of being obvious, have you tried posting a question to them at their website www.statmodel.com? Bob

Richard N Jones

Hi Daniel,

I think Robert has the right idea, or look in the User's Guide. I just did and didn't see anything that looks like a test for multivariate normality. Another good place to look is the Mplus Discussion forum.

Something to keep in mind, though, is if multivariate normality is an assumption you need to make. Mplus makes use of conditional normality assumptions, where normality is assumed conditional on the covariates. This may only apply to the case when all of the dependent variables are not continuous normal.

Let us know what you learn!

Rich

Luis Villalobos-Gallegos

You can use TECH11 of the OUTPUT command.

http://www.statmodel.com/discussion/messages/9/665.html?1368134677

Also you can use MVN package in R software to test multivariate normality, using Mardia o Royston tests