I am using regular Mx (unfortunatly i cannot find an active forum), and would like to clarify the meanings of the output received after running in an ACE with an ordinal moderator script.
1. Are the estimates of T,U,V the moderated components? (often denoted by betas)
2. If the estimate for a certain parameter is not zero, yet the CI contains zero- does this imply that this component is not significant?
3. To obtain the percentages of trait variance for additive genetics, should I simply square the estimate (also, does the answer to this question depend on the significance/non significance if the moderated component of A)?
This is an example for the output of Mx:
6 Confidence intervals requested in group 1
Matrix Element Int. Estimate Lower Upper Lfail Ufail
A 1 1 1 95.0 0.2197 0.1865 0.2368 0 0 0 0
C 1 1 1 95.0 0.0000 -0.1044 0.1044 0 0 0 0
E 1 1 1 95.0 0.1475 0.1339 0.1636 0 0 0 0
T 1 1 1 95.0 0.0063 -0.0230 0.0288 0 0 0 0
U 1 1 1 95.0 0.0000 -0.0825 0.0825 0 0 0 0
V 1 1 1 95.0 -0.0071 -0.0209 0.0082 0 0 0 0