RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Antonio, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio Prioglio Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Help with factanal and missing values Hi list, I'm performing a series of confirmatory

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Two solutions are to use na.omit() to eliminate observations with missing data -- factanal(na.omit(datamatrix), factors=n) -- or to use a formula argument to factanal and pass the data as a data frame via the data argument -- factanal(~ var1 + ... + vark,

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Antonio, -Original Message- From: Antonio Prioglio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:50 PM To: John Fox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Two solutions are to use

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Could you give an example on how to do CFA with sem? Among the examples in ?sem is a second-order CFA. Ok, sorry I forgot about the Thurstone example as I was focusing on Path Analysis example when reading the sem doc. I understand this is a model taken

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Among the examples in ?sem is a second-order CFA. Thanks now I have it running, hopefully in a correct way. By the way I notice in the output a GFI index that in your online appendix to your 2002 book describe as an ad hoc measure. Could you comment on

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread John Fox
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Could you give an example on how to do CFA with sem? Among the examples in ?sem is a second-order CFA. Ok, sorry I forgot about the Thurstone example as I was focusing on Path

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread John Fox
these would be of help. Regards, John -Original Message- From: Antonio Prioglio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:22 PM To: John Fox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Prioglio
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Dear Antonio, This example is (as stated) a second-order CFI, where each of the primary factors, F1, F2, and F3 depends upon the second-order factor F4. To have no second-order structure, simply define variances and (assuming that you're specifying

RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values

2004-07-13 Thread John Fox
Dear Antonio, -Original Message- From: Antonio Prioglio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:54 PM To: John Fox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] Help with factanal and missing values On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote: Dear Antonio