Dear Andrea.
First of all, the usual advice. If you have problems with a particular function
in a particular package, first try the package author. I just happened to find
your query.
Then, to your question.
> On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Andrea Lamont <alamont082 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I am having a problem with the function mat.regress in the psych package
> that I was hoping someone would be able to give guidance on.
>
> I have a correlation matrix that is [76,76] with the first column
> representing the Y variable, the rest are the Xs. This is what my data
> looks like:
>
> m=runif(5776,-1,1)
>
> mdat <- matrix(m, nrow = 76, ncol = 76, byrow = TRUE)
>
> diag(mdat) <- 1
The matrix you are forming is of course, not a correlation matrix, for you are
just making up random values in 76 x 76 matrix with a diagonal of 1. The matrix
is not symmetric.
For a known correlation matrix, e.g., the Thurstone 9 abilities:
set.cor(y=1,x=c(2:9),data=Thurstone)
This works as documented, that is, it finds the beta weights for the 8
predictors (variables 2:9) to predict the first variable.
I am not sure what you are doing wrong. You could send me as a rda file the
matrix you are trying to analyze and I can see if I can see the problem.
You might also run
sessionInfo() to give me a little more help.
Bill
>
>
> I am trying to obtain beta weights/regression coefficients from this
> correlation matrix.
>
> When I run:
>
> set.cor(y=1, x=c(2:76),data=mdat)
>
> or mat.regrss(y=1, x=c(2:76),data=mdat)
This definitely will not work since the function is mat.regress
>
>
> I get odd errors. Most recently:
>
> set.cor(y=1, x=c(2:76),data=mdat) yields
>
> Error in array(x, c(length(x), 1L), if (!is.null(names(x))) list(names(x),
> :
>
> 'data' must be of a vector type, was 'NULL'
>
> I have tried converting my matrix to a vector (as.vector). Still got
> errors. Another common error I am getting is that the subscript not being
> bound. I tried other options like square=FALSE to no avail.
>
> It seems like such a straightforward function, I'm not sure what
I'm doing
> wrong.
>
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrea
>
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> Andrea Lamont, PhD
> Post-Doctoral Fellow
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
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