[R] factanal - rotation = oblimin

2004-07-26 Thread Antonio Prioglio
within any package? Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristoteles /\ \ /ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS

[R] (Newbie) scope of with()

2004-07-15 Thread Antonio Prioglio
of the sort participant-with(participant,{...}) it would make nicer reading. Apparently attach(), detach() would not do as fieldname-expr(fieldname) creates a new variable and not a change to the value of the field! Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence

[R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
) Could someone give me an example on such a call for a simple CFA? Thanks for the help. Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristoteles /\ \ /ASCII RIBBON

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
might try the sem package. Actually these CFAs are preliminary to a Path Analysis I had ambitions to do with the sem package rather than LISREL. Could you give an example on how to do CFA with sem? Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
links? Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristoteles /\ \ /ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
on how it compares with the Comparative Fit Index (CFI; Bentler, 1990) which according to Byrne 1994 is a revised version of the Bentler-Bonnet (1980) Normed Fit Index? Thanks again for your valuable help. Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
is the variance for the factor n. Fn - Item.a lam.z NA is the grouping of the items to each factor Fn - Fm gam.w NA I take is the covariance among factors. Is this correct? Do I need to set variances for each item (Item.a - Item.a)? Saluti, Antonio Prioglio -- We are what we repeatedly