similar to: Problems using hetcor (polycor)

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

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

I try tu use mob() with my data.frame ('data.frame': 288 obs. of 81 variables; factors, numerics and ordered factors) My response is a binary variable and I should use for modelling a logistic regression (family=binomial). I read in the "MOB" Vignette that I could use a formula like this if I would like to have only partitioning variables apart from the response.

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

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 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

Someone can help me? I tried several things and always don't converge # Model library(sem) dados40.cov <- cov(dados40,method="spearman") model.dados40 <- specify.model() F1 -> Item11, lam11, NA F1 -> Item31, lam31, NA F1 -> Item36, lam36, NA F1 -> Item54, lam54, NA F1 -> Item63, lam63, NA F1 -> Item65, lam55, NA F1 -> Item67, lam67, NA F1 ->

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I am doing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on assets data for household income prediction. The problem is that the assets data are rank ordered (usually binary ... possess car/don't possess car), so the normal correlation is inappropriate for the calculation of the PCA. Instead one has to use the polychoric correlation coefficient. It uses the "random.polychor.pa" package.

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 =

useR's, I am trying to find a quick way to change some values in a list that are subject to a condition to be NA. Consider the 3x1 matrix: delta <- matrix(c(2.5,2.5,1), nrow = 1) And consider the list named v that has 3 elements > v v[[1]] [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12] [,13] [,14] [1,] 4.25 3.25 2.25 1.25 0.25 0.75 1.75 2.75 3.75 4.25

Hi all, For computational reasons, I need to estimate an 18x18 polychoric correlation matrix two variables at a time (rather than trying to estimate them all simultaneously using ML). The resulting polychoric correlation matrix I am getting is non-positive definite, which is problematic because I'm using this matrix later on as if it were a legitimately estimated correlation matrix (in order

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

Hello, It has been found that SEM analysis using polychoric correlations + maximum likelihood estimator produces incorrect test statistics and standard errors (e.g., Flora, D. B., & Curran, P. J. (2004). An Empirical Evaluation of Alternative Methods of Estimation for Con?rmatory Factor Analysis With Ordinal Data. Psychological Methods, 9(4), 466-491). Standard errors can be dealt with by

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

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 :

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

Dear R-User, Appreciate any helps. It looks simple, but I don't have a clue. Given that I have a dataframe of tree population with three variables: sp=species , d0=initial_size grow=growth increment from initial size per year How can I calculate the future growth increment of each tree for the next 3 years. The following Rscript was written, #---------- a0 <-

I am trying to fit a very simple broken stick model using the package "segmented" but I have hit a roadblock. > str(data) 'data.frame': 18 obs. of 2 variables: $ Bin : num 0.25 0.75 1.25 1.75 2.25 2.75 3.25 3.75 4.25 4.75 ... $ LnFREQ: num 5.06 4.23 3.50 3.47 2.83 ... I fit the lm easily: > fit.lm<-lm(LnFREQ~Bin, data=id07) But I keep getting an error

Hello, I have a data set containing categorical and ordinal factors, as well as sampling weights (i.e., survey weights reflecting unequal probabilities of selection). I want to fit a structural equation model with sem(). I have run sem() on weighted covariance matrices using advice from John Fox (see <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/help/08/12/8773.html> and