Great, this solutions seems to work well! I have one more question, though: the mianalyze procedure generates two sets of covariance parameters, one for the intercept of the variable of interest (subid, or more specifically, the variable containing our individual subjects), and one for the Residuals. Which set do you think would be appropriate for analyzing the proportion of the variance that is associated with between-person--or trait--differences and the proportion that is associated with variations across time points? We already have an idea of how we're going to calculate this (by using the within/between/total variance), but we're not entirely certain if we should be using the intercept, Residual, or both. And thanks for your help so far 🙂
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