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Dear all, I am trying to estimate simultaneous equation model concerning growth in russian regions. I run the analysis by means of FIML in R sem package. I am not familiar with SEM yet, but I've just got several suitable estimated specifications. Nevertheless, sometimes R gives the following warning message: Warning message: Negative parameter variances. Model is probably underidentified.

Hello all, I have an issue where I am generating data and trying to confirm the estimates using a sem. I keep getting an error about the degree of freedom being negative "Error in sem.default(ram, S = S, N = N, raw = raw, data = data, pattern.number = pattern.number, : The model has negative degrees of freedom = -6" Can someone explain this error or tell me what is wrong with my

Hi all, hope someone can help me out with this. Background Introduction I have a data set consisting of data collected from a questionnaire that I wish to validate. I have chosen to use confirmatory factor analysis to analyse this data set. Instrument The instrument consists of 11 subscales. There is a total of 68 items in the 11 subscales. Each item is scored on an integer scale between 1 to 4.

Hi List I want to carry out structural mode. Following Example l have taken from Basic Econometrics- Damodar Gujarati : Advertising intensity function: Ad/S = a0 + a1M + a2 (CD/S) + a3C + a4C2 + a5Gr + a6Dur – (1) Concentration function: C = b0 + b1 (Ad/S) + b2 (MES/S) -(2) Price-cost margin function: M = c0 + c1(K/S) + c2Gr + c3C + c4GD + c5(Ad/S) + c6 (MES/S)

Can somebody help me with the following issue (SEM in R), please:   When I run the model (includes second order models) in R, it gives me the following:   1)       In sem.default(ram = ram, S = S, N = N, param.names = pars, var.names = vars,  :   Could not compute QR decomposition of Hessian. Optimization probably did not converge.   2)       I have aliased parameters and NaNS   or sometimes when

Hi R-colleagues. In the sem-package i have a problem to introduce hidden variables. As a simple example I take an ordinary factor analysis. The program: cmat=c(0.14855886, 0.05774635, 0.08003300, 0.04900990, 0.05774635, 0.18042029, 0.11213013, 0.03752475, 0.08003300, 0.11213013, 0.24646337, 0.03609901, 0.04900990, 0.03752475, 0.03609901, 0.31702970)

Using R-studio, I am trying to run a structural equation model and I am running into problems with testing my primary model. Once I specify everything and try to run it I get this error: Error in eigen(S, symmetric = TRUE, only.values = TRUE) : 0 x 0 matrix And when I look at the object for my primary model in my workspace, which is created after I specify it, it lists all my model components,

Hi! The following model specification works when testing for first order factors, but when I attempt to test for a second order factor by adding the last 4 lines in the model, I get the error message below: model.cfa.ru <- specifyModel() sRU1 <- sRU, NA, 1 sRU2 <- sRU, lam12 sRU3 <- sRU, lam13 sRU4 <- sRU, lam14 sRU5 <- sRU, lam15 sRU6 <- sRU, lam16 sRU <-> sRU, mak1

Hi, I am doing a hierarchical CFA using the sem package. I have 20 items, and I have 2 factors (F3 and F4), and also F1 and F2 are nested within F3. Here is the code that I have, but it is giving me an error message "Warning message: In eval(expr, envir, enclos) : Negative parameter variances. Model may be underidentified." and a further error "Error in summary.objectiveML(cfa,

Hi, I am using tsls function from sem package to estimate a model which includes large number of data. Among its predictors, it has a nominal data which has about 10 possible values. So I expand this parameter into 9-binary-value predictors with the coefficient of base value equals 0. I also have another continuous predictor. The problem is that, whenever I run the tsls, I will get 'System

Hi there, I searched R-help list with "path analysis" as keyword, and learn that sem package can do it. However, I don't figure out a way to construct the model for the path diagram as Fig. 1. in Huang et al. (2002)[1]. I try the following code: huang.cor <- readMoments(diag=FALSE, names=c('x1', 'x2', 'x3', 'y')) 0.76 0.91 0.72 0.94 0.77 0.83

Hello, I've been unsuccessfully trying to reproduce a sem from Grace et al. (2010) published in Ecological Monographs: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/09-0464.1 The model in question is presented in Figure 8, page 81. The errors that I've been getting are: 1. Using a correlation matrix: res.grace <- sem(grace.model, S = grace, N = 190) Warning message: In sem.default(ram

Dear R-help list members, I forgot to copy my reply to the r-help list. Here's most of it. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca] Sent: Sunday,

Full_Name: Charles J. Geyer Version: 1.8.0 OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu (Suse 8.2) Submission from: (NULL) (134.84.86.22) Two bugs (perhaps related, perhaps independent) revealed by the same Poisson regression with offset mydata <- read.table(url("http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/5931/mle/seeds.txt")) out.fubar <- glm(seedlings ~ burn01 + vegtype * burn02 + offset(log(totalseeds)),

Hello I am using sem to look at the direct effect of one variable on another but i am uncertain if i am progressing correctly. An example: covar1<-? matrix(c(0.4,-0.2,3,-0.2 , 0.3,-2 , 3 ,-2 , 60), nrow=3,byrow=T) rownames(covar1)<-colnames(covar1)<-c("endo","exo","med") path1<-matrix(c(? ? "exo -> endo",? "g1", NA,

Hi - I am trying to fit sem model with intercepts. Here is what I have in my model. Exogeneous vars: x1 (continous), x2 (ordinal), x3 (ordinal), x4(continuous) Endogeneous vars: y1 (continuous), y2 (ordinal), y3 (ordinal) SEM model: x1 -> eta1; x2 -> eta1; x3 -> eta2; x4 -> eta2; eta1 -> y1, eta1 -> y2, eta2 -> y2, eta2 -> y3 However, in these arrow models, I

Hi all, I am attempting to learn my way through the sem package by constructing a simple structural model for some of my data on bird diversity, abundance, and primary productivity. I have constructed a covariance matrix between these variables as per the following: >S_matrix = matrix(c( >+ 0.003083259, 0, 0, >+ 0.143870284, 89.7648490, 0, >+ 0.276950919,

Dear Spencer and Prof. Fox, Thank you for your replies. I'll very appreciate, if you have any ideas concerning the problem described below. First, I'd like to describe the model in brief. In general I consider a model with three equations. First one is for annual GRP growth - in general it looks like: 1) GRP growth per capita = G(investment, migration, initial GRP per

I hope somebody can help. A student of mine is doing a study on Measurement Error models (errors-in-variables, total least squares, etc.). I have an old reference to a "multi archive" that contains leiv3: Programs for best line fitting with errors in both coordinates. (The date is October 1989, by B.D. Ripley et al.) I have done a search for something similar in R withour success. Has

I'm using specify.model for the sem package. I can't figure out how to represent the residual errors for the observed variables for a CFA model. (Once I get this working I need to add some further constraints.) Here is what I've tried: model.sa <- specify.model() F1 -> X1,l11, NA F1 -> X2,l21, NA F1 -> X3,l31, NA F1 -> X4,l41, NA F1 -> X5, NA, 0.20