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 there a way to use full information

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. Rick B

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

2011-12-01 Thread Dustin Fife
-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 dataset with complete information on X1-X3, but missing data (MAR) on X4

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

2011-12-01 Thread Dustin Fife
-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 there a way to use full information maximum likelihood (FIML) to estimate missing data in the sem

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

[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