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Is there a way to use full information maximum likelihood (FIML) to estimate missing data in the sem package? For example, suppose I have a dataset with complete information on X1-X3, but missing data (MAR) on X4. Is there a way to use FIML in this case? I know lavaan and openmx allow you to do it, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation for the sem package. Thanks! -- Dustin Fife

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.

Hi, I am wondering if anyone knows of an easy way to fit a saturated model using the sem package on raw data? Say the data were: mtcars[, c("mpg", "hp", "wt")] The model would estimate the three means (intercepts) of c("mpg", "hp", "wt"). The variances of c("mpg", "hp", "wt"). The covariance of mpg with

Dear R users, Jarrett Byrnes and I would like to announce version 2.0-0 of the sem package for fitting observed- and latent-variable structural equation models. This is a general reworking of the original sem package (which is still available on R-Forge as package sem1). Some highlights of sem 2.0-0 include: o More convenient and compact model specification, including the default automatic

Dear R users, Jarrett Byrnes and I would like to announce version 2.0-0 of the sem package for fitting observed- and latent-variable structural equation models. This is a general reworking of the original sem package (which is still available on R-Forge as package sem1). Some highlights of sem 2.0-0 include: o More convenient and compact model specification, including the default automatic

Dear R users/developers I requested help to solve the problem of formulating Multivariate Sample selection model by using Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)estimation method. I could not get any response. I formulated the following code of FIML to analyse univariate sample selection problem. Would you please advise me where is my problem library (sem) library(nrmlepln) Selection

Does anyone know if someone is developing full-information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimation algorithms for basic regression functions, like glm()? I think that having FIML options for workhorse functions that typically use ML would give R an edge over other statistical software, given how well FIML performs in missing data situations compared to ML. While my current level of programming

Dear R experts/ users Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) estimation approach is considered robust over Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) approach for analysing data of multivariate sample selection problem. The zero cases in my dependent variables are resulted from three sources: Irreverent options, not choosing due to negative utility and not used in the reported time. FIML can

Sorry if this question has been asked previously, I searched but found little. There also doesn't seem to be a dedicated SEM list-serv so hopefully this will find its way to the appropriate audience. In discussing SEM with a colleague I mentioned that a model they were fitting in AMOS was equivalent to a linear regression and that the coefficients would be the same. This of course was the

Hello! I am trying to reproduce (for a publication) analyses that I ran several months ago using lavaan, I'm not sure which version, probably 0.4-12. A sample model is given below: pathmod='mh30days.log.w2 ~ mh30days.log + joingroup + leavegroup + alwaysgroup + grp.partic.w2 + black + age + bivoc + moved.conf + local.noretired + retired + ds + ministrytime + hrswork + nomoralescore.c +

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

Hi I was asked if lme can use FIML (Full Information Maximum Likelihood) instead of REML or ML but I don't know the answer. Does anybody know if this is implemented in R? Thanks Francisco

Hello- I am using R to build my initial models, but need to use AMOS to compare the models of two groups (adults vs. kids). The problem is I am getting different results with R and AMOS for the initial models of the separate groups (and the R results make more sense). The parameter estimates (path coefficients and variances) from both programs are nearly identical, but the model chi-squares

Hello. I am getting results from sem that are not correct (that's assuming that the results from my AMOS 4.0 software are correct). sem does not vary some of the parameters substantially from their starting values, and the final estimates of those parameters as well as the model chisquare value are incorrect. I've attached some code that replicates the problem. The parameters in

Greetings, I am working in the sem package on a model with 3 exogenous variables (2 are nominal-categorical), and 4 endogenous, continuous variables. To use sem with the nominal variables, I created dummy variables. Now, in my sem output I have estimates for path coefficients for the relationship between each level of the nominal variables and the endogenous variables they are associated

Is there an equivalent to MPlus's Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) missing data estimator for R? If so, is there a way to take covariance structures produced by such a package and perform multiple regression with these? If you are unfamiliar with Mplus' FIML below is a link to their manual. Their estimation technology is discussed on page 25. I have asked the developer of the

Dear R-users, A new package called `lavaan' (for latent variable analysis) has been uploaded to CRAN. The current version of lavaan (0.3-1) can be used for path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth curve modeling. More information can be found on the website: http://lavaan.org Some notable features of lavaan: - the 'lavaan model

Dear R-users, A new package called `lavaan' (for latent variable analysis) has been uploaded to CRAN. The current version of lavaan (0.3-1) can be used for path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth curve modeling. More information can be found on the website: http://lavaan.org Some notable features of lavaan: - the 'lavaan model

I have a student that I'm encouraging to use R rather than SAS or Stata and within just 2 weeks he has come up with a question that stumps me. What does a person do about endogeneity in generalized linear models? Suppose Y1 and Y2 are 5 category ordinal dependent variables. I see that MASS has polr for estimation of models like that, as long as they are independent. But what if the

I'm having the most curious error while using the sem package. For the model I'm working with, I keep getting the following error: Error in J[cbind(1:n, observed)] <- 1 : subscript out of bounds I''ve used debug=TRUE with sem, and there don't appear to be any problems with model - there are no latent variables in this model. The variables in the covariance matrix