Re: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-12-01 Thread yrosseel
On 12/01/2011 05:25 PM, Dustin Fife wrote: What is your goal? I have used and like mice pretty well, but using mice + sem to try to address missingness seems like more work than using FIML in OpenMx or lavaan to try to address it. Is there a reason you want to use the sem package or a reason y

Re: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-12-01 Thread Dustin Fife
t; >> Dear Dustin, > >> > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > >> > project.org] On Behalf Of Dustin Fife > >> > Sent: November-30-11 9:51 PM > >> > To: r-help@r-proje

Re: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-12-01 Thread Dustin Fife
mber-30-11 9:51 PM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package > > > > Is there a way to use full information maximum likelihood (FIML) to > > estimate missing data in the sem package? For example, suppose I have a > > datas

Re: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-12-01 Thread Rick Bilonick
On 12/01/2011 07:18 AM, John Fox wrote: > To:r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package > You should check out the OpenMx R package. Just search for OpenMx and SEM. You can download from the web site. It does FIML and is an excellent SEM package.

Re: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-12-01 Thread John Fox
Dear Dustin, > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Dustin Fife > Sent: November-30-11 9:51 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] FIML with missing data in sem package > > Is

[R] FIML with missing data in sem package

2011-11-30 Thread Dustin Fife
Is there a way to use full information maximum likelihood (FIML) to estimate missing data in the sem package? For example, suppose I have a dataset with complete information on X1-X3, but missing data (MAR) on X4. Is there a way to use FIML in this case? I know lavaan and openmx allow you to do it,