similar to: import from LISREL output of parameter estimates

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 =

Hello to everybody. My name is Carlo and I would like to share with you a problem I encountered. I've tried to install a statistical software, LISREL V.8.8, usually running under Windows. I followed all the Wine procedure by the graphical interface, not command line. The installation seemed complete: at the end of it the installation package asked me to reboot my laptop. I did it twice: the

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

Hi there, as a student sociology, I'm starting to learn about SEM. The course I follow is based on LISREL, but I want to use the SEM-package on R parallel to it. Using LISREL, I found it to be very usable to be able to see the total direct and total indirect effects (standardized and unstandardized) in the output. Can I create these effects using R? I know how to calculate them

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]," ") }

Does anyone know if the sem package in R can implement a stacked model comparison, for example as in LISREL or AMOS? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Steven Dick, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow Human Neuroscience Laboratory Department of Neurology The University of Chicago 5841 S. Maryland Ave. MC-2030 Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773)-834-7770 Email: adick at uchicago.edu Web:

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 list, I'm performing a series of confirmatory factor analysis on different groupings of items from data collected with questionnaires. There are some missing values. For those sets with no missing values I call factanal(datamatrix,factors=n) where datamatrix is a table of all observations for the items under investigation. This call fails when there are missing values. help(factanal)

Dears, I'm a college student and In doing my statistics homework. I use R with SEM package as my tool for sem analysis, but my teacher told me AMOS is more suitable for such analysis. Could someone help tell me whether it is true that some commercial software is better accepted in academic fields? Sorry if I should not post such topics here. -- Best Regards, Reeyarn T. Lee Accounting

Hello, I finally run my measurement model in sem - successfully. Now, I am trying to print out the path diagram that is based on the results - but for some reason it's not working. Below is my script - but the problem is probably in my very last line: # ANALYSIS OF ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND FEAR - LISREL P.31 library(sem) # Creating the ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND FEAR intercorrelation matrix

Dear list members, I am trying to get information on how to fit a linear regression with constrained parameters. Specifically, I have 8 predictors , their coeffiecients should all be non-negative and add up to 1. I understand it is a quadratic programming problem but I have no experience in the subject. I searched the archives but the results were inconclusive. Could someone provide suggestions

I have a student that I'm encouraging to use R rather than SAS or Stata and within just 2 weeks he has come up with a question that stumps me. What does a person do about endogeneity in generalized linear models? Suppose Y1 and Y2 are 5 category ordinal dependent variables. I see that MASS has polr for estimation of models like that, as long as they are independent. But what if the

I have a consulting client with data containing a mixture of continuous, nominal, and ordinal variables, who wishes to do some correlational analyses. Ignoring for the moment whether this is wise or useful, is there some way to calculate a matrix using, for example, polychoric correlations for pairs of nominal variables, or correlations based on normal scores for ordinal variables? [The PRELIS

Hi, i read something about MECOSA3 (G.Arminger) which is a software to : "Analysis of finite mixtures of conditional Lisrel models" I'm very interested to identify heterogeneous subpopulations and ask me are similar functions doing something in R, too ??? I know SEM and perhaps with some additions/modifications it is possible doing this general mean- and covariance structures with

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

Hello. I have been browsing the R- manual and not seen any direct implementation of Factor analysis. Is there anyone out there who has run Factor Analysis with R? Thanks Michael -- Michael Preminger Forsker / Research Scientist Avdeling for journalistikk, bibliotek- og informasjonsfag / Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science H?gskolen i Oslo / Oslo College

Kirtland Air Force Base has denied approval for the use of R on its Windows network. Some of their objections seem a bit strange, but some appear to be legitimate. In particular, they have detected registry "vulnerabilities" which are detailed in the attachment. I know nothing about Windows registry vulnerabilities. If any of these issues are legitimate concerns,