similar to: sem package and AMOS

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:

Hello- If I input a variance-covariance matrix and specify NA for start values, how does sem determine the start value? Is there a default? 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:

Hello all, This is a general stats question--I realize it is an R help list, so tell me to go away if it is inappropriate. I have a 2 X 2 design, and I have specified four identical path models (one for each level of each factor). I want to test for an interaction at each path--essentially (A1 - A2) - (B1 - B2) != 0. I was thinking of computing a contrast for each path of interest, such that

Hello- I would like to remove the columns of a matrix that contain all zeros. For example, from x<-matrix(c(1,5,3,2,1,4,0,0,0), ncol=3,nrow=3) I would like to remove the third column. However, because this is in a loop I need a way to first determine which columns are all zeros, and only then remove them. I.e., I don't know which column of x contains all zeros until after x is

Hello all, I'm trying to replicate a confirmatory factor analysis done in Amos. The idea is to compare a one-factor and a two-factor model. I get the following warning message when I run either model: "Could not compute QR decomposition of Hessian. Optimization probably did not converge." I have no idea what to do here. I believe posters reported the same problem. It seems

Hello. I am getting results from sem that are not correct (that's assuming that the results from my AMOS 4.0 software are correct). sem does not vary some of the parameters substantially from their starting values, and the final estimates of those parameters as well as the model chisquare value are incorrect. I've attached some code that replicates the problem. The parameters in

Sorry if this question has been asked previously, I searched but found little. There also doesn't seem to be a dedicated SEM list-serv so hopefully this will find its way to the appropriate audience. In discussing SEM with a colleague I mentioned that a model they were fitting in AMOS was equivalent to a linear regression and that the coefficients would be the same. This of course was the

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

I'm coming from the AMOS world and am wondering if there is a simple way to do multiple hypothesis testing in the manner of BIC analyses in AMOS using the sem package in R. I've read the documentation, but don't see anything in there except for basic BIC scores. Perhaps someone has devised a simple way to compare the relative likelihood of all possible path-fittings within a

Hi all- I am stumped. The code in A. returns errors at lines 14 and 15 and fails to load series1 and series2. However, in B., if temp1 and temp2 are called again (which returns a "Table exists" error; see lines 14-17 in B.) series1 and series2 load correctly. Any ideas? Also-I am open to any suggestions to improve the code as I am a horrific programmer. Thanks A. 1 >

Hi, I am not sure if R-help is the right forum for my question. If not, please let me know. I have to do some discriminant validity tests with some constructs. I am using the method of doing a CFA constraining the correlation of a pair of the constructs to 1 and comparing the chi-square of this constrained model to the unconstrained model. If the chi-square difference is not significant, then I

Hi, I am trying to obtain the heteroskedasticity consitent standard errors (HCSE) after apply 2SLS. I obtain 2SLS through tsls from package sem or systemfit: #### tsls #### library (sem) Reg2SLS <-tsls(LnP~Sc+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D,~I2+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D) summary (Reg2SLS) #### systemfit #### library (systemfit) RS <- LnP~Sc+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D Inst <- ~I2+Ag+Ag2+Var+R+D labels

Hello all, I am re-posting my previous question with a simpler, more transparent, commented code. I have been ramming my head against this problem, and I wondered if anyone could lend a hand. I want to make parallel a bootstrap of a linear mixed model on my 8-core mac. Below is the process that I want to make parallel (namely, the boot.out<-boot(dat.res,boot.fun, R = nboot) command).

Dear all, I try to conduct a SEM / two stage least squares regression with the following equations: First: X ~ IV1 + IV2 * Y Second: Y ~ a + b X therein, IV1 and IV2 are the two instruments I would like to use. the structure I would like to maintain as the model is derived from economic theory. My problem here is that I have trouble solving the equations to get the reduced form so I can run

Hello- I have a script which steps through a series of subjects, and for the subjects I remove outlying values. After removing these outliers, I specify a cutoff, keeping only values over a certain value (e.g., 1.96). I want to populate a matrix with a statistic of the values that make the cutoff (for example, the mean). However, in some subjects, after outliers and the cutoff are specified,

I keep getting this error when I try to use the sem package. I and another person who has successfully used the sem package for similar analysis (fMRI effective connectivity) cannot figure out what is wrong with my code. I would appreciate any suggestions. The error message: Error in data.frame(object$coeff, se, z, 2 * (1 - pnorm(abs(z))), par.code) : arguments imply differing

Hi, I'm trying to perform a hierachical, second order CFA. That's the thing that I need to leave AMOS. I found some sim.hierarchical and omega stuff, but nothing clear enough. Can anyone help me? I just need a simple and clear manual. Best, Pablo. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R Users, I have a situation where I want to compare the factor structures of two samples that were administered then same test. AMOS as well as SAS provide the option of “simultaneous comparison of factor structures” like it was proposed by Jöreskog (1971, Simultaneous factor analysis in several populations). Is there a way to do that in R? I am not sure if it is possible to model this

Hi, I am using tsls function from sem package to estimate a model which includes large number of data. Among its predictors, it has a nominal data which has about 10 possible values. So I expand this parameter into 9-binary-value predictors with the coefficient of base value equals 0. I also have another continuous predictor. The problem is that, whenever I run the tsls, I will get 'System

Hi there, I just saw your question on the help list and tough you could help me with some start-up info.... I just downloaded the R project software to try running SEM analysis and I also downloaded the SEM package. But it just sits there on the desktop and R does not know where it is...I can¹t figure out how to organize the files...When I type ?sem in R it says object sem not found...I can¹t