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findPossibleFactorCor

Find the appropriate position for freely estimated correlation (or covariance) given a regression coefficient matrix

Description

Find the appropriate position for freely estimated correlation (or covariance) given a regression coefficient matrix. The appropriate position is the pair of variables that are not causally related.

Usage

findPossibleFactorCor(beta)

Arguments

beta

The regression coefficient in path analysis.

Value

The symmetric matrix containing the appropriate position for freely estimated correlation.

Author(s)

Sunthud Pornprasertmanit (psunthud@gmail.com)

Examples

path <- matrix(0, 9, 9)
path[4, 1] <- path[7, 4] <- NA
path[5, 2] <- path[8, 5] <- NA
path[6, 3] <- path[9, 6] <- NA
path[5, 1] <- path[8, 4] <- NA
path[6, 2] <- path[9, 5] <- NA
findPossibleFactorCor(path)

simsem

SIMulated Structural Equation Modeling

v0.5-16

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Sunthud Pornprasertmanit [aut], Patrick Miller [aut], Alexander Schoemann [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-8798>), Terrence D. Jorgensen [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6773>), Corbin Quick [ctb]

Initial release

2021-03-28