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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,

Hi John Thanks a lot for the reply. Could you suggest how I can correct this problem? I tried using a correlation matrix instead of raw moments, but still got the same error. I also fixed parameters v1,v2,v3,a1 at 1; then it gave me the error that the system is exatly singular. To answer the points that you raised: 1. x1-x6 are not causes; they are just indicatiors. Does that change my

Dear R users, The OpenMx developer team takes great pride in announcing the availability of OpenMx 1.0. The team would like to express its gratitude to the large number of beta-testers who have helped us improve the code. Thank you. OpenMx is a free suite of R functions and a estimation back-end that supports fitting a wide variety of structural equation models including multiple groups, full

Dear R users, The OpenMx developer team takes great pride in announcing the availability of OpenMx 1.0. The team would like to express its gratitude to the large number of beta-testers who have helped us improve the code. Thank you. OpenMx is a free suite of R functions and a estimation back-end that supports fitting a wide variety of structural equation models including multiple groups, full

I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan eventually to contribute to CRAN: car (for "Companion to Applied Regression") is a package that provides a variety of functions in support of linear and generalized linear models, including regression diagnostics (e.g., studentized residuals, hat-values, Cook's distances, dfbeta, dfbetas, added-variable plots,

I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan eventually to contribute to CRAN: car (for "Companion to Applied Regression") is a package that provides a variety of functions in support of linear and generalized linear models, including regression diagnostics (e.g., studentized residuals, hat-values, Cook's distances, dfbeta, dfbetas, added-variable plots,

I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan eventually to contribute to CRAN: car (for "Companion to Applied Regression") is a package that provides a variety of functions in support of linear and generalized linear models, including regression diagnostics (e.g., studentized residuals, hat-values, Cook's distances, dfbeta, dfbetas, added-variable plots,

Dear Helplist, I want to produce forecasts from a structural equation model. With the SEM package the model setup and its estimation is possible. However, I have not figured out how to obtain ex ante forecasts, i.e. applying the Gauss-Seidel algorithm to the estimated structural equations for provided values of the exogenous variables (i.e.: y_t = -inv(A)*B*x_t). Does anyone know if the there is

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 list members, In re-running with GLMM() from the lme4 package a generalized-linear mixed model that I had previously fit with glmmPQL() from MASS, I'm getting a warning of a convergence failure, even when I set the method argument of GLMM() to "PQL": > bang.mod.1 <- glmmPQL(contraception ~ as.factor(children) + cage + urban, + random=~as.factor(children) + cage +

I'm a property-casualty actuary, use R in at my job, and lurk on the list. In conjunction with one of its meetings, the Casualty Actuarial Society (I'm a member) is looking for proposals from people to teach a workshop in R and I thought members of the list might be interested. I've pasted the information below. My apologies if this posting violates list rules. Thanks. Kevin

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

I am a new user of the function sem in package sem and lavaan for structural equation modeling 1. I don?t know what is the difference between this function and CFA function, I know that cfa for confirmatory analysis but I don?t know what is the difference between confirmatory analysis and structural equation modeling in the package lavaan. 2. I have data that I want to analyse but I have some

Dear R list members, Since today seems to be the day for optimization questions, I have one that has been puzzling me: I've been doing some work on sem, my structural-equation modelling package. The models that the sem function in this package fits are essentially parametrizations of the multinormal distribution. The function uses optim and nlm sequentially to maximize a multinormal

Dear R list members, I have a question about the proper use of the typsize and fscale arguments to nlm. I use nlm in my sem package to fit general structural-equation models, which entails maximizing a multinormal likelihood with respect to parameters that represent regression coefficients and covariances of variables. The magnitudes of these parameters can be very different. The

Dear R users, Version 2.1-1 of the sem package, for structural equation modeling, is now on CRAN. Unlike version 2.0-0, which was a major overhaul of the package, version 2.1-1 just sprinkles some syntactic sugar on it, introducing the specifyEquations() and cfa() functions; specifyEquations() supports model specification in equation (rather than path) format, and cfa() facilitates compact

Dear R users, Version 2.1-1 of the sem package, for structural equation modeling, is now on CRAN. Unlike version 2.0-0, which was a major overhaul of the package, version 2.1-1 just sprinkles some syntactic sugar on it, introducing the specifyEquations() and cfa() functions; specifyEquations() supports model specification in equation (rather than path) format, and cfa() facilitates compact

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