IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

This tab displays any one of the following graphs for any of the model parameters.

•Trace: A trace plot, sometimes called a time-series plot, shows the sampled values of a single parameter over the course of time as sampling from the parameter's posterior proceeds. This plot helps you to judge how quickly the MCMC procedure converges in distribution—that is, how quickly it forgets its starting values.

•Histogram: A histogram of samples from a single parameter's posterior distribution.

•Polygon: A frequency polygon of samples from a single parameter's posterior distribution.

•Scatterplot: A scatterplot of samples from the posterior distribution of two parameters.