fieldResults: Main Functional Field Results

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Main Functional Field Results

Description

Fit values of paths for a functional field, given an associated expectancy matrix.

Usage

fieldResults(fModel, covMat, sampleN = 4)

Arguments

fModel	field model, specifying which paths are freely estimated vs. constrained to zero
covMat	covariance matrix to be fit to a field model (can be either a correlation or covariance matrix)
sampleN	sample size associated with the covariance matrix (defaults to '4', which will basically make sure everything is as ns as possible)

Details

Note that the uMatrix2 is a servicable means of estimating the unpredicted residuals in some of the models where lavaan does not want to provide the path-analysis implied residuals. But it should only work when the model is a DAG that has been placed to have rows in 'causal order'. There is also a problem with how uMatrix2 is estimated (the final covariance is always misestimated) which I assume involves a bad interaction with how expOutcomes function closes out

Value

list with estimated:

eMatrix	expectancy matrix
fMatrix	field matrix
uMatrix	'uniqueness' matrix (i.e., expectancy matrix not predicted by field matrix)
uMatrix2	'uniqueness' matrix2 (a crude work-around for when lavaan does not want to estimate correctly; see https://github.com/yrosseel/lavaan/issues/44
parTable	parameter estimates, with associated significance values

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