20260424 - algorithms

Author: isaactpetersen

mplus.qmd

@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ Other settings you can specify under the "ANALYSIS" section include:
 ```
 ANALYSIS:
     ESTIMATOR = BAYES;
+    ALGORITHM = INSERT; ! options: GIBBS—equivalent to GIBBS(PX1); GIBBS(PX1)—the default; GIBBS(PX2), GIBBS(PX3), GIBBS(RW), or MH
     BCONVERGENCE = .05; ! value of the Gelman-Rubin convergence criterion; ! default is .05; van de Schoot et al. (2014) recommend .01
     BITERATIONS = a (b); ! a = maximum, b = minumum number of iterations for each MCMC chain
     CHAINS = 4; ! number of chains