Dear Mitsuo,
My intention in writing the sem package was to provide a basic
structural-equation facility for R. I haven't made explicit provision for
models with means, but it might be possible to fit such models by using the
raw sums-of-squares-and-products matrix among the observed variables
(perhaps divided by n) as input. It might be necessary to make small
modifications to degrees of freedom, etc.
I'm afraid that I don't have time now to figure out whether this will
work
and, if so, precisely how to do it, but you're welcome to try. If you get
it to work, I'd be interested in the answer. If this approach doesn't
work,
then incorporating means would likely require major modifications to the
program.
There are, by the way, several other things that dedicated
structural-equation software does that the sem package does not -- e.g.,
analysis by groups and for ordinal observed variables. I may, at some
point, extend the package in these directions, but I don't have plans at
the moment to do so.
Good luck,
John
At 10:53 PM 5/24/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>I am wondering whether Package SEM can do with intercepts and
>means in its structural analysis.
>
>If it can not calculate, how can I make a supplemental function
>in R?
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