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Hello All, Recently, I was asked to help out with an SEM cross-validation analysis. Initially, the project was based on "sample-splitting" where half of cases were randomly assigned to a training sample and half to a testing sample. Attempts to replicate a model developed in the training sample using the testing sample were not entirely successful. A number of parameter estimates were

Hi! I want to construct a path analysis model that can account for measurement error in totally aggregated parcels, which refer to parcels where all of the items in a scale are summed or averaged. If I am not mistaken, Bollen (1989) advocates the following formula for computing the error variance of each parcel: (1−α(parcel))×variance(parcel), such that α refers to Cronbach's alpha, which

Hi list members, I saw a couple lavaan posts here so I think I?m sending this to the correct list. I am trying to run a multigroup analysis with lavaan in order to compare behavioural correlations across two populations. I?m following the method suggested in the paper by Dingemanse et al. (2010) in Behavioural Ecology. In one of the groups, lavaan returns negative variance for one path and I?m

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 all, Hyball is a free, DOS program for factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling (SEM), with some distinct capabilities. For a brief introduction and overview see http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~rozeboom/READHYBL.TXT (A list of more formal references is at the end of this e-mail.) The program itself is available from http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~rozeboom/ The program was

Dear R People: Could someone recommend a "baby book" on path analysis and SEM, please? Or if someone has an example that they use in the classroom setting, that would be very cool too. Thanks in advance, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

I am new to R. I just tried to recreate in R (using sem package and the identical input data) a solution for a simple measurment model I have found before in LISREL. LISREL had no problems and converged in just 3 iterations. In sem, I got no solution, just the warning message: "Could not compute QR decomposition of Hessian. Optimization probably did not converge. in: sem.default(ram =

Dear R-users, A new version of `lavaan' (for latent variable analysis) is now available on CRAN. The current version of lavaan (0.4-8) 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 To get a first impression of how the 'lavaan model syntax' looks

Dear R-users, A new version of `lavaan' (for latent variable analysis) is now available on CRAN. The current version of lavaan (0.4-8) 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 To get a first impression of how the 'lavaan model syntax' looks

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

Hello R Users, While I have attempted to dig into the R help files and I have not identified the answer to these questions, I apologize in advance if my questions were answered in the past. I also recognize that one of my questions unfortunately verges on statistical rather than code territory. I have two rather unrelated questions about using the sem and polycor packages for a relatively

Hi, (1.) How is it possible to get automatic a "lower triangle of correlation matrix" ? h.cor <- cor(dat,use="pairwise.complete.obs") zz <- lower.tri(h.cor,diag=T) ### that's not what i wish and "wrong" ? results <- matrix(unlist(h.cor[upper.tri(h.cor,diag=T)])) results <- matrix(unlist(h.cor[upper.tri(h.cor,diag=T)]),5) Must i take the lowest

Is it possible to fit a structural equation model with link functions in R? I am trying to build a logistic-regression-like model in sem, because incorporating the dichotomous variables linearly seems inappropriate. Mplus can do something similar by specifying a 'link' parameter, but I would like to be able to do it in R, ofcourse. I have explored the 'sem' package from John Fox,

Hello, I'd like to know if there is a way to fit a Structural equation model with dichotomous indicators (ex: problem with a phone solved/ or not) having effects on a ordinal variable. How I do that using R? Do you have an example with the code in R that you can send to me? Thanks a lot! Renata Estrella UFRJ, Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Renata Leite Estrella Assistente de

Hi Yves lavaan looks like a very nice package. From the tutorial introduction I see you create path diagrams for some of the models you describe. How did you do this? I don't see a function for this in the package. I know there is a path.diagram function in the sem package that uses dot to draw the diagram, but I've always found the layouts from dot somewhat strange for path diagrams

Hi, I am currently working with the sem package in R, to create pathway diagrams. Id like to use the standardized path coeffcients. To get these, I use std.coef. However, using this yields only the standardized coefficients, but does not give me the standard error. Does someone know how to get std.coef to show the standard error of the standardized path coefficients as well? Thanks, Bastiaan

I'm trying to use the source command to run commands from a file. For instance: source("do.R"), where do.R is a file in the same directory in which I am running R. The contents of do.R are: ls() print("hello") sum(y1) mean(y1) After source("do.R"), all I see is: > source("do.R") [1] "hello" I'm using the X11 version of R for

Dear R-users, I am running a large number of simulations and estimating a structural equation model for each one using the SEM package. Each run of my program has around 8000 simulations. Most of the time the program completes all of them correctly but sometimes I get a segmentation fault in the sem routine and my program stops with the following error message: > *** caught

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