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Hi Has anyone used R to conduct confirmatory factor analysis? This email pertains to use of SEM. For context consider an example: the basic idea is that there are a bunch of observables variables (say study habbits, amount of time reading in the bus, doing homework, helping other do homework, doing follow-up on errors etc.) and one believes that all these variables maybe measured by two or

...about the source of the difference, since (as I understand it), essentially the same algorithm is used by the two functions. I'm using R 2.0.1 under Windows XP with the current version of lme4. For anyone who's interested, the data are at <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/soc761/Bangladesh.txt>, and are originally from Goldstein, Multilevel Statistical Models, Third Edition. Any suggestions would be appreciated. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv...