Re: [R] Link functions in SEM

2008-07-28 Thread John Fox
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jeroen Ooms > Sent: July-27-08 2:52 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Link functions in SEM > > > Is it possible to fit a structural equation model with link functions in R? I > am tr

Re: [R] Link functions in SEM

2008-07-27 Thread Stas Kolenikov
sem is package for pretty traditional covariance matrix analysis. To deal with other members of exponential family than normal, you can also look at GLLAMM package (http://www.gllamm.org) that works from Stata. Or Mplus. Or you might have some luck building up a mixed model for your purpose, see ?n

[R] Link functions in SEM

2008-07-27 Thread Jeroen Ooms
Is it possible to fit a structural equation model with link functions in R? I am trying to build a logistic-regression-like model in sem, because incorporating the dichotomous variables linearly seems inappropriate. Mplus can do something similar by specifying a 'link' parameter, but I would like