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Hi. Does anyone know whether the following error is a result of a bug or a feature? I can eliminate the error by making ML=F, but I would like to see the values of the cut-points and their variance. tmp.vec<-c(0, 0, 0 , 0 ,0 , 1, 0, 2, 0 , 0, 5 ,5 ,3 ,1, 0 , 1, 5, 10, 27, 20, 9, 0, 1, 1, 12, 29, 57, 34, 0, 0, 1, 2, 11, 31, 32) tmp.mat<-matrix(tmp.vec, nrow=7)

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

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

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. Using the polychor function > polychor(data[c(s1,s2)] ) for polychoric correlations of two ordinal variables in R takes a long time for N=7000 (20 minutes+) and significantly slows down my computer. Now, I have a pretty old computer, but it takes about 20 seconds for MPLUS to print out the complete polychoric correlation matrix for all 16 variables, while I am running the R function

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

Dear R users, I am a psychology postgraduate student who is relatively new to using R. I am currently developing a psychometric scale and have run into a few problems when using R to calculate a polychoric correlation matrix for my dataset. I am trying to produce a polychoric correlation matrix for calculating ordinal reliability estimates (eg. Alpha, omega).The set consists of 439 observations

A bit late, but you might like to look at http://www.qimr.edu.au/davidD/polyr.R Regarding the original posters queries: You can analyse polychoric correlations as if they were Pearson correlations using standard software (eg sem), and this usually doesn't do too badly, or go to AWLS (Browne) in LISREL etc, or ML analysis of the full multidimensional contingency table using programs such as

Hi I have used a polycor package for categorical correlation coefficients. I run the following script. But there were no results. Could you tell me how to correct the script? Thanks in advance, vars <- names(sdi) for (i in 1:length(vars)) { for (j in 1:length(vars)) { paste(vars[i]," and ", vars[j]) polychor(vars[i], vars[j]) # corr } } -- Kum-Hoe Hwang, Ph.D.Phone :

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,

Hello all, Trying to get this piece of code to work on my data set. It is from http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter. logit.roc <- function(model, steps=100) { field.name <- attr(attr(terms(formula(model)), "factors"), "dimnames")[[1]][1] eval(parse(text=paste("tmp <- ", ifelse(class(model$data) == "data.frame", "model$data$",

hi i have gone through the achieves but still could not get my bridge to suvive a reboot . please can anyone help me am using fedora core 2 -----Original message----- From: bridge-request@lists.osdl.org Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:08:06 +0100 To: bridge@lists.osdl.org Subject: Bridge Digest, Vol 17, Issue 25 > Send Bridge mailing list submissions to > bridge@lists.osdl.org > >

Hi: I have encountered problems with imodwt and universal.thresh.modwt and cannot find any reference in R Search. Hope someone can give me some ideas: Starting with modwt.la8 <- modwt(xdata, "la8", n.level=6) <-- this seems to work fine (1) ydata <- imodwt(modwt.la8) will always give ydata as numeric(0) (no values) instead of being a time series data with

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

At useR 2006 I mentioned that it would be nice to have a way to specify binomial links that involved free parameters and described some experience with a Gosset link involving a free degrees of freedom parameter, and a Tukey-lambda link with two free parameters. My implementation of this involved some rather kludgey modifications of binomial, make.link and glm that (essentially) added a

Hi, Whenever I issue this commands (as in the help for the threshold function), # # Do a 1D decomposition # tdecomp <- wd(test.data) # # Threshold it # tdecomp.thresh <- threshold(tdecomp) # # Reconstruct from the thresholded coefficients # trecons <- wr(tdecomp.thresh) # #

I fit the model fit<-lm(thresh~cond*Ne) where thresh is the reponse cond is a factor with levels a, b, and c Ne is a continuous indep var I think of this full model as having three lines: thresh as a function of Ne for each condition. Thus we have slopea, slopeb, slopec, inta, intb, intc. lm output my params ------------------------- (Intercept) inta condb intb - inta condc

Airon, I don't think you have to find an English computer 'cause the following must work in your Chinese one :-) Let me explain. First of all, change your lines to xdata <- ckhdat$Adj..Close[1:1447] #names(ckhdwt.la8) <- c("w1", "w2", "w3", "w4", "w5","w6", "v6") note the # sign, i.e., DO NOT change the names

I have a problem with Windows 2000 (SP2) printing to an Epson C60 on a Linux server (running Mandrake 8.1 and Samba 2.2.2 with Cups 1.1.12). I've scoured the net and posts on Usenet have not yielded any helpful response. I have 2 Win2k boxes and they both respond differently, but neither is printing. I've installed the printer on both boxes. On one I get a "unable to