similar to: Re: Tetrachoric and polychoric correlations, Polycor package

This is a bit late, but: > About two years ago there was a thread about this which suggested that at > that time nobody had these coefficients ready to go. > (a) has anyone in the meanwhile programmed them? http://www.qimr.edu.au/davidD/R/polyr.R > (d) I appreciate this last item is not strictly an R question, but my > intention is to use these as input into the sem package for

Hi there, Am I correct to believe that tetrachoric correlation is a special case of polychoric correlation when there are only two levels to the ordered factor? Thus it should be okay to use hetcor from the polycor package to build a matrix of correlations for binary variables? If this is true, how can one estimate 95% confidence intervals for the correlations? My guess would be mat =

Hi, Is there any R library/package that calculates tetrachoric correlations from given marginals and Pearson correlations among ordinal variables? Inputs to polychor function in polycor package are either contingency tables or ordinal data themselves. I am looking for something that takes marginal distributions and Pearson correlation as inputs. For example, Y1=(1,2,3) with P(Y1=1)=0.3,

About two years ago there was a thread about this which suggested that at that time nobody had these coefficients ready to go. (a) has anyone in the meanwhile programmed them? (b) I think I can see how to do the tetrachoric one with mvtnorm on similar lines to an example on the help page so will try that if nobody else already has (c) looking at the polychoric one makes me realise yet again

Hello, I am running polychoric correlations on a dataset composed of 12 ordinal and binary variables (N =384), using the polycor package. One of the association (between 2 dichotomous variables) is very high using the 2-step estimate (0.933 when polychoric run only between the two variables; but 0.801 when polychoric run on the 12 variables). The same correlation run with ML estimate returns a

I don't know of any R package that can match all the functionality of LEM eg fitting equality constraints to model parameters a la LISREL. WRT dumping tables, I would have thought that as.data.frame.table does pretty much what you want, [not tested] newtab <- as.data.frame(table(a,b,c)) cat("dim\n") for(i in seq(1, ncol(newtab)-1) { cat(nlevels(newtab[,1]," ") }

I hope someone here knows the answer to this since it will save me from delving deep into documentation. Based on 22 pairs of vectors, I have noticed that tetrachoric correlation coefficients in stata are almost uniformly higher than those in R, sometimes dramatically so (TCC=.61 in stata, .51 in R; .51 in stata, .39 in R). Stata's estimate is higher than R's in 20 out of 22

Hi, I'm running this for a simulation study, so many combinations of parameter produce many predictions that I need to correlate with data. The problem ---------------- I'm using rating data with 3 to 5 categories (e.g., too low, correct, too high). The underlying continuous scales should be normal, so I chose the polychoric correlation. I'm using library(polychor) in its

Dear R-users Could anyone tell me which library contains a function to compute polycoric correlations? I wonder the same question was asked a while ago, but I could not locate the mail in the R-help archives. Sorry for bothering you. Sincerely ------------------------ Hiroto Miyoshi ???? h_m_ at po.harenet.ne.jp

I have been using the hetcor function in the polycor package. When I don't specify the use option everything runs smoothly. However, when I specify use either as "pairwise.complete.obs" or "complete.obs" I get this error Error in optim(rho, f, control = control, hessian = TRUE, method = "BFGS") : non-finite value supplied by optim Is this an error in

I am currently working with R's polycor package and I have encountered a problem. I tried to follow the steps as outlined in the sem.pdf file where a CFA model is run using polychoric correlations. Every time I run the command sem(model, data, N=.), I get the following warning message: Warning message: In if (orthogonal) { : the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be

I have encountered the same problem with sshd -i (under Mandrake linux 6.1) as that described by Ben L Perkins, this time with 2.1.1p4: ... Last login: Mon Jul 17 12:04:50 2000 from orpheus.qimr.edu.au -bash: ?oe90: command not found -bash: glorious: command not found -bash: ?]r90: command not found -bash: marshall4: command not found Connection to orpheus.qimr.edu.au closed. log: Jul 17

Ron Crump wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dataframe that contains pedigree information; > that is individual, sire and dam identities as separate > columns. It also has date of birth. > > These identifiers are not numeric, or not sequential. > > Obviously, an identifier can appear in one or two columns, > depending on whether it was a parent or not. These should > be

Dear all, Has someone implemented in R (or any other language) Knol DL, ten Berge JMF. Least-squares approximation of an improper correlation matrix by a proper one. Psychometrika, 1989, 54, 53-61. or any other similar algorithm? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel Background: I want to factanal() matrices of polychoric correlations which have negative eigenvalue. I coded Highham 2002

Newsgroup members, I appreciate the help on this topic. David Duffy provided a solution (below) that was quite helpful, and came close to what I needed. It did a great job creating two vectors of dichotomous variables with a known correlation (what I referred to as a phi-coefficient). My situation is a bit more complicated and I'm not sure it is easily solved. The problem is that I must

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. I just noticed the paper by Morales and Nocedal Remark on "Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B: Fortran Subroutines for Large-Scale Bound Constrained Optimization". TOMS 2011; 38(1): 7 http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~morales/PSfiles/acm-remark.pdf which describes a couple of improvements (speed and accuracy) to the original Netlib code which AFAICT is that still used by optim() via f2c.

Hi R-users, I need to run Filliben correlation test, but I'm not able to find this function in any package. Perhaps it isn't in a package, but sometimes anybody have program this function or create a routine to estimate it. I found it in google and I hope what I found it's in this page, http://genepi.qimr.edu.au/staff/davidD/R/filliben.R but i can't open it. Anybody can help me?

> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:43:55 -0600 > From: Aldi Kraja <aldi at wustl.edu> > > Hi, > Using package gclus in R, I have created some graphs that show the > trends within subgroups of data and correlations among 9 variables (v1-v9). > Being interested for more details on these data I have produced also the > var-covar matrices. > Question: From a pair of two

Dear all, I get a strange error when I find polychoric correlations with the ML method, which I have been able to reproduce using randomly-generated data. What is wrong? I realize that the data that I generated randomly is a bit strange, but it is the only way that I duplicate the error message. > n<-100 > test.x<-rnorm(n, mean=0, sd=1) > test.c<-test.x + rnorm(n, mean=0,