[R] lavaan: Modification indices and intercepts

2016-08-17 Thread Miksza, Peter John
Hello, I’m examining CFA model invariance using the lavaan package in R. I’ve run an analysis to test “strong” model invariance (e.g., fixing loadings and intercepts to be equivalent across groups) but cannot seem to retrieve modification indices for freeing intercept parameters. Here is sampl

Re: [R] Lavaan

2015-06-24 Thread deva d
i tried the semPlot but it flopped. various other packages also did not perform. i will try the DiagrammeR package and revert. meanwhile, i tried going to the onyx package and its neat, though i have yet to spend some time on it to familiarise myself with the nuts and bolts of the process. *..

Re: [R] Lavaan

2015-06-24 Thread Rick Bilonick
Have you considered using the semPlot package? It works nicely with lavaan models (among other sem packages). There is also the DiagrammeR package. Rick On 06/23/2015 10:48 AM, DzR wrote: Dear Senior users of R/R Studio, I am very new to this environment hence am unable to plot the SEM model

Re: [R] Lavaan

2015-06-24 Thread David Barron
Does the package semPlot not do what you want? I notice that you got an error when you used library(semPlot) because you don't have all the dependencies installed. When you have semPlot working, it should be able to produce a graphical output of the results, including 'covariance arrows'. David

Re: [R] Lavaan

2015-06-23 Thread deva d
i am attaching a .csv file, and the associated code worked out in R Studio. i used the lavaan and sem packages, and conducted it. now, i wish to draw the SEM model, as is available in AMOS other packages and how does one draw the covariance arrows in R. ONE STATISTICS oriented question - how can

Re: [R] Lavaan

2015-06-23 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi, There are various tutorials for lavaan online, and even an entire book on the R package. Have you worked through those examples and tutorials successfully? If so, a clearer description of what you've tried and what failed is required to be able to help you. Without a reproducible example that

[R] Lavaan

2015-06-23 Thread DzR
Dear Senior users of R/R Studio, I am very new to this environment hence am unable to plot the SEM models including use of graphic package ggplot. Request for some help in getting the plots please. Thanks, - Deva __ R-help@r-project.org mailing l

Re: [R] Lavaan Model Specification

2014-04-30 Thread Jeremy Miles
No picture attached, and you don't tell us what your trouble is, but your model has -4 df, so it's incorrectly specified. Take out these lines: congressmanAttitudes ~~ congressmenPerceptConstiuentAttitudes congressmenPerceptConstiuentAttitudes ~~ constiuentAttitudes rollCallBehav ~~ congressmenPe

[R] Lavaan Model Specification

2014-04-30 Thread Patzelt, Edward
R Community - I'm trying to build the model in the image below, but having troubles correctly specifying the syntax: library(lavaan) library(semPlot) lower <- matrix(c(1, 0, 0, 0, .475, 1, 0, 0, .738, .643, 1, 0, .608, .721, .823, 1), 4, 4, byrow = TRUE) colnames(lower) <- rownames(lower) <-

Re: [R] lavaan fit indices & Chronbach's alphas

2014-03-26 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Great, thanks. Sure, it's easy to calculate Cronbach's alpha separately... On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Jeremy Miles wrote: > > > > On 26 March 2014 10:13, Dimitri Liakhovitski < > dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I've run SEM using lavaan and after I used summary(myf

Re: [R] lavaan fit indices & Chronbach's alphas

2014-03-26 Thread Jeremy Miles
On 26 March 2014 10:13, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: > Hello! > > I've run SEM using lavaan and after I used summary(myfit) I saw the > following fit indices: > > Model Chi Squared > CFI > TLI > RMSEA > SRMR > > I was wondering if these are the only fit indices lavaan produces, e.g.: > GFI > AGFI

[R] lavaan fit indices & Chronbach's alphas

2014-03-26 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Hello! I've run SEM using lavaan and after I used summary(myfit) I saw the following fit indices: Model Chi Squared CFI TLI RMSEA SRMR I was wondering if these are the only fit indices lavaan produces, e.g.: GFI AGFI RMR Also - does lavaan automatically estimate Chronbach's Alphas for measureme

[R] lavaan and semTools warning message

2013-04-29 Thread Duarte Viana
Hello all, I am running a simple path analysis with the function sem.mi (of semTools) after doing multiple imputation in my (missing) data. However, depending on the option to combine the chi-square, I get the following warning messages: Warning messages: 1: In estimateVCOV(lavaanModel, samplesta

Re: [R] Lavaan model

2012-10-31 Thread yrosseel
On 10/31/2012 02:47 PM, sylvain.giroud wrote: Dear R-users, Does somebody know what does the "Estimate" reported by the Lavaan model tell us? I assume this tells the relative strength of the dyadic relations. The 'Estimate' column contains the estimated model parameters. There are many differe

[R] Lavaan model

2012-10-31 Thread sylvain.giroud
Dear R-users, Does somebody know what does the "Estimate" reported by the Lavaan model tell us? I assume this tells the relative strength of the dyadic relations. Thank you for your help! Regards, Sylvain -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Lavaan-model-tp4648004.htm

Re: [R] Lavaan: Immediate non-positive definite matrix

2012-08-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
Dear Andrew, Maximum likelihood estimation with missing data typically makes some rather strong assumptions. If I am not mistaken, the default covariance coverage in Mplus is .05, the fact that you need to set it lower suggests you have some combinations of variables with less than 5% jointly pre

[R] Lavaan: Immediate non-positive definite matrix

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Miles
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*r

Re: [R] Lavaan Package - How to Extract Residuals in Data Values

2012-07-17 Thread Ed Merkle
Zimmerman To:r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Lavaan Package - How to Extract Residuals in Data Values Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain Hello R Community, I am using the Lavaan package in R 2.15.0 to analyze data collected from 1200 lakes across North America. My dataset includes 3

[R] Lavaan Package - How to Extract Residuals in Data Values

2012-07-09 Thread Emily Zimmerman
Hello R Community, I am using the Lavaan package in R 2.15.0 to analyze data collected from 1200 lakes across North America. My dataset includes 3 continuous independent variables (LOG_NTL, LOG_PTL, and LOG_SR_A_D) and 1 continuous dependent variable (BIOVOL) . I have successfully constructed struc

Re: [R] Lavaan and Average Variance Extracted

2011-12-28 Thread Mark Difford
On Dec 28, 2011 at 3:47am T.M. Rajkumar wrote: > I need a way to get at the Variance Extracted information. Is there a > simple way to do the calculation. Lavaan > does not seem to output this. It does. See: library(lavaan) ?inspect inspect( fit, "rsquare" ) Regards, Mark. - Mark Difford

Re: [R] Lavaan and Average Variance Extracted

2011-12-28 Thread T.M. Rajkumar
Thank you. This helps. Rajkumar -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Lavaan-and-Average-Variance-Extracted-tp4238791p4239821.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list ht

[R] Lavaan and Average Variance Extracted

2011-12-27 Thread T.M. Rajkumar
I am trying to do a confirmatory factor analysis with Lavaan. I need a way to get at the Variance Extracted information. Is there a simple way to do the calculation. Lavaan does not seem to output this. Thank you Rajkumar -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Lavaan-and-A

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-11-07 Thread Joshua Wiley
em from sem package and sem from > lavaan package... , > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Structural-equation-modeling-in-R-lavaan-sem-tp3409642p3997527.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ___

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-11-06 Thread loyolite270
I am new to both sem and lavaan package ... I dint exactly get the difference between sem from sem package and sem from lavaan package... , -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Structural-equation-modeling-in-R-lavaan-sem-tp3409642p3997527.html Sent from the R help

Re: [R] lavaan: how to analyse residuals of a latent variable

2011-08-09 Thread yrosseel
Can I include criminality among those and thereby get the common part of criminality and fire.setting "out of the way"? No. You already regress fire.setting on criminality since it is an indicator in the measurement model of criminality. In other words, the 'criminality' part is already regr

Re: [R] lavaan: how to analyse residuals of a latent variable

2011-08-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:49:13PM +0200, yrosseel wrote: > > >My question is: how can I analyse the part of the variation in > >fire.setting that is not included in the latent variable criminality? > >Ideally I would want a new variable that captures just this. Then I > >could model regressions w

Re: [R] lavaan: how to analyse residuals of a latent variable

2011-08-09 Thread yrosseel
My question is: how can I analyse the part of the variation in fire.setting that is not included in the latent variable criminality? Ideally I would want a new variable that captures just this. Then I could model regressions with this variable as the dependent variable. You can add a regressio

[R] lavaan: how to analyse residuals of a latent variable

2011-08-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi r-help, I use lavaan:sem() for structural equation modelling with latent variables. Below is a reproducible example (the code requires a working installation of lavaan) where the latent variable criminality is in focus. Besides criminality in general, I am specifically interested one of the man

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-16 Thread jouba
...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) On 04/04/2011 07:14 PM, jouba wrote: > > > Thanks you for your response > For lavaan package can i have more information about this example you have > applied in the section 7 > the meanings of The v

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-05 Thread jouba
Thanks a lot Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:49:08 -0500 From: ml-node+3428265-1156197921-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) On 04/04/2011 07:14 PM, jouba wrote: > > > Thanks you for your respon

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-05 Thread yrosseel
On 04/04/2011 07:14 PM, jouba wrote: Thanks you for your response For lavaan package can i have more information about this example you have applied in the section 7 the meanings of The variables (c1,c2,c3,c4, i ,s ,x1,x2) I think i have need more information to learn more about how able to

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-04 Thread jouba
(longitudianl data) Thanks a lot Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 02:16:42 -0500 From: ml-node+3424797-1256108745-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) On 04/03/2011 09:38 PM, jouba wrote: > > Daer all, I

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-04 Thread yrosseel
On 04/03/2011 09:38 PM, jouba wrote: Daer all, I have a question concerning longitudinal data: When we have a longitudinal data and we have to do sem analysis there is in the package lavaan some functions,options in this package that help to do this or we can treat these data like non longitudin

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-03 Thread Jeremy Miles
On 3 April 2011 12:38, jouba wrote: > > Daer all, > I have a question concerning longitudinal data: > When we have a longitudinal data and we have to do sem analysis there is in > the package lavaan some functions,options in this package that help to do > this or we can treat these data like non

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-04-03 Thread jouba
Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:31:32 -0700 From: ml-node+3416220-556418632-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) sem (the package) documentation is not intended to teach you how to do SEM (the technique) (there&#

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-30 Thread yrosseel
On 03/29/2011 10:49 PM, jouba wrote: Dear all I have an error mesage « error message : the MLM estimator can not be used when data are incomplete » When i use the function sem(package lavaan) and when i fill the paramters estimator and missing estimator="MLM", missing="ml" i understa

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread jouba
hat i am not allowed to use estimator= ``mlm `` in parralle to the parameter missing Best wishes Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:31:32 -0700 From: ml-node+3416220-556418632-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,se

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread jouba
Ok thanka lot you for your response Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:31:32 -0700 From: ml-node+3416220-556418632-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) sem (the package) documentation is not intended to teach

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Miles
or the sem funtion (sem package) > Thanks in advance for your help > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Structural-equation-modeling-in-R-lavaan-sem-tp3409642p3415954.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread jouba
Root Mean Square Residual… Th same question for the sem funtion (sem package) Thanks in advance for your help -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Structural-equation-modeling-in-R-lavaan-sem-tp3409642p3415954.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread jouba
: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) Dear jouba, I think you're using the sem() function in the sem package. I'm not sure that I understand your question, but I think it is why you need to specify the variance of the exogenous variable x1 as a parameter. The answer is th

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-29 Thread jouba
+3412819-419762937-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) On 28 March 2011 09:00, jouba <[hidden email]> wrote: Your syntax is not very tidy. That makes it hard to check. > x1 <->x1, sigmma7, NA > for me this

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-28 Thread John Fox
> The following variables have no variance or error-variance parameter > (double-headed arrow): > x1 > The model is almost surely misspecified; check also for missing covariances. > > Thanks a lot > > > Antra EL MOUSSELLY > > > > > > Date

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-28 Thread Jeremy Miles
On 28 March 2011 09:00, jouba wrote: Your syntax is not very tidy. That makes it hard to check. > x1 <->x1, sigmma7, NA > for me this an exogen variable and i am not obliged to specify this > equation > > model.se<-specify.model() > x1->x2,gamm1,NA > x2->x3,gamm2,NA > x3>x4,gamm3,NA > That's

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-28 Thread jouba
variables have no variance or error-variance parameter (double-headed arrow): x1 The model is almost surely misspecified; check also for missing covariances. Thanks a lot Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:40:32 -0700 From: ml-node+3411579-510061861-225...@n4.nabble.com To: an

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-28 Thread yrosseel
On 03/28/2011 04:18 AM, jouba wrote: Jeremy thanks a lot for your response I have read sem package help and I currently reading the help of lavaan I see that there is also an other function called lavaan can do the SEM analysis So I wonder what is the difference between this function and the sem

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-27 Thread jouba
there is other ideas for functions witch can do the work Cordially Antra EL MOUSSELLY Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:08:02 -0700 From: ml-node+3410447-849581659-225...@n4.nabble.com To: antr...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem) On 27 March 2011 12:12, jouba

Re: [R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-27 Thread Jeremy Miles
On 27 March 2011 12:12, jouba wrote: > I am a new user of the function sem in package sem and lavaan for > structural > equation modeling > 1. I don’t know what is the difference between this function and CFA > function, I know that cfa for confirmatory analysis but I don’t know what > is the di

[R] Structural equation modeling in R(lavaan,sem)

2011-03-27 Thread jouba
a lot -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Structural-equation-modeling-in-R-lavaan-sem-tp3409642p3409642.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] lavaan diagram

2011-03-08 Thread William Revelle
Sebastian, At 7:03 PM -0800 3/8/11, Peter Ehlers wrote: On 2011-03-08 18:09, Sebastián Daza wrote: Hi everyone, I got the following error when I tried to diagram a confirmatory factor analysis using lavaan: lavaan.diagram(conf) Error in strwidth(xvars) : plot.new has not been called yet Does

Re: [R] lavaan diagram

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2011-03-08 18:09, Sebastián Daza wrote: Hi everyone, I got the following error when I tried to diagram a confirmatory factor analysis using lavaan: lavaan.diagram(conf) Error in strwidth(xvars) : plot.new has not been called yet Does anyone have any idea about what is happening? Thank you in

[R] lavaan diagram

2011-03-08 Thread Sebastián Daza
Hi everyone, I got the following error when I tried to diagram a confirmatory factor analysis using lavaan: lavaan.diagram(conf) Error in strwidth(xvars) : plot.new has not been called yet Does anyone have any idea about what is happening? Thank you in advance. -- Sebastián Daza sebastian.d..

Re: [R] lavaan diagram

2011-03-06 Thread William Revelle
Dear Sebastian, Yes. The problem is that the most recent version of psych 1-.0-94 was released before the most recent version of lavaan (0.4-7) I have updated the lavaan.diagram function in psych and will release it soon. In the meantime, you can get the update by sourcing it at http://

[R] lavaan diagram

2011-03-06 Thread Sebastián Daza
Hi everyone, I get the following message when I try to get a diagram of a CFA: Error in lavaan.diagram(fit) : no slot of name "GLIST" for this object of class "Fit" Does anyone know what the problem is? Regards. -- Sebastián Daza sebastian.d...@gmail.com _