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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'm generating the name of the variable with paste function and then using that variable name further to get the specific position value from the data.frame, here is the snippet from my code: modelResults <- extractModelParameters("C:/PilotStudy/Mplus_Input/Test", recursive=TRUE) #extractModelParameters reads all the output files from the Test folder and create the

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week New packages ------------ * apcluster (1.0.1) Ulrich Bodenhofer http://crantastic.org/packages/apcluster The apcluster package implements Frey's and Dueck's Affinity Propagation clustering in R. The algorithms are analogous to the Matlab code published by Frey and Dueck. * BioPhysConnectoR (1.6-1) Franziska Hoffgaard

Hi, I recently tried to estimate a linear unconditional latent growth curve on 7 repeated measures using lavaan (most recent version): modspec=' alpha =~ 1*read_g0 + 1*read_g1 + 1*read_g2 + 1*read_g3 + 1*read_g4 + 1*read_g5 + 1*read_g6 beta =~ 0*read_g0 + 1*read_g1 + 2*read_g2 + 3*read_g3 + 4*read_g4 + 5*read_g5 + 6*read_g6 ' gmod=lavaan(modspec, data=math, meanstructure=T,

Dear list, I want to run a statistical program (using its .exe file) from R by writing a script. I know there are some packages that call WinBUGS, Mplus etc. form R. I just want to call the .exe extension of this program and run several times writing a code in R. Thus, I want to have the output inside R. I just don't know where to start. Does anyone have any idea about that? Is there a

Do I miss here something? dtaa = read.table("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mplus/examples/ma_snijders/mlbook1.dat", sep=",") head(dtaa) # shows the data as it should be save(dtaa,"dtaa",file="c:/dtaa") d = load("c:/dtaa") head(d) # all data is lost, it only shows [1] "dtaa" "dtaa" Thanks for your hint on this.

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,

I have been trying to use lavaan (version 0.4-7) for a simple path model, but the program seems to be computing far less degrees of freedom for my model then it should have. I have 7 variables, which should give (7)(8)/2 = 28 covariances, and hence 28 DF. The model seems to only think I have 13 DF. The code to reproduce the problem is below. Have I done something wrong, or is this something I

Afternoon R help, I want to run Rasch/IRT analyses using the ltm package, however, I am using large scale survey data which requires weighting for accurate results. I attempted to create a weighted object to insert into the formulae of the ltm packages, however, the survey data only includes 30 replicate weights and a sampling weight. The svrepdesign requires additional information such as

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 was in a presentation of optimizations fitted with both MPlus and SAS yesterday. In a batch of 1000 bootstrap samples, between 300 and 400 of the estimations did not converge. The authors spoke as if this were the ordinary cost of doing business, and pointed to some publications in which the nonconvergence rate was as high or higher. I just don't believe that's right, and if some

Hi All I was wondering how to get the same results with gls and lme. In my lme, the design matrix for the random effects is (should be) a identity matrix and therefore G should add up with R to produce the R matrix that gls would report (V=ZGZ'+R). Added complexity is that I have 3 levels, so I have R, G and say H (V=WHW'+ZGZ'+R). The lme is giving me the correct results, I am

> 3x4 Error: unexpected symbol in "3x4" R has no idea that you equate "x" as multiplication.. use an astrix > 3*4 [1] 12 dominic wrote > > This is basically my code: > > library(MASS) > lmsreg(formula = b0 ~ b1 + b3 + b1xb2, data=mydata) > > b1xb2 is an interaction but it was the centered value for a continuous > variable times a

Hello, I've been trying to answer a problem I have had for some months now and came across multivariate multilevel modeling. I know MPLUS and SPSS quite well but these programs could not solve this specific difficulty. My problem: 9 correlated dependent variables (medical symptoms; categorical, 0-3), 5 measurement points, 10 time-varying covariates (life events; dichotomous, 0-1), N ~ 900.

I am looking to fit one or more latent categorical variables to data that is a mixture of categorical and continuous variables. Factor analysis would work for continuous data, latent class analysis for categorical data. I understand that in a package such as MPlus I could perform a single analysis of both data types. Are there similar routines available in R? Stuart -----Original Message-----

Has anyone successfully linked Mplus and R and have code on how to do it? It would be great to use R to simulate datasets and then ship to Mplus for SEM analysis. I know one researcher who does this quite regularly but I can’t get ahold of him right now. Sincerely, Jeff Miller **************************************** Jeffrey M. Miller, PhD HYPERLINK

Dear R-help listers, I am a new convert to R. I am trying to use a r package to conduct latent class analysis as a triangulation check of my cluster analysis using the cluster package in R. I have about 30 cases and 6 indicators, some of which are binary indicators and others are ratio-level variables (percentages). I looked around for information in flexmix, lca, and poLCA, and couldn't find

Hello Gurus, I'm using one of the function, i.e. extractModelParameters, from the MplusAutomation package to read parameters fromMplus out files into R. I have 360 cells and each cell has several out files (max. 100). I'm extracting the model parameters from each cell and doing subsequent calculations, primarily, on 'est.' column. The following code demonstrates how I'm

Is there an equivalent to MPlus's Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) missing data estimator for R? If so, is there a way to take covariance structures produced by such a package and perform multiple regression with these? If you are unfamiliar with Mplus' FIML below is a link to their manual. Their estimation technology is discussed on page 25. I have asked the developer of the

I have been working through the book "Applied longitudinal data analysis: modeling change and event occurrence" by Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett. I have been working examples using SAS and also using it as an opportunity for learning to use R for statistical analysis. I ran into some difficulties in chapter 8 which deals with using structural equation modeling. I have tried to