cfa.extract.itempars: Extracting Item Parameters from a Fitted 'cfa' Object in...

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Extracting Item Parameters from a Fitted cfa Object in lavaan

Description

This function extract item parameters from a fitted lavaan::cfa object in lavaan. It extract item loadings, item intercepts and the mean and covariance matrix of latent variables in a confirmatory factor analysis model.

Usage

cfa.extract.itempars(object)

Arguments

object

Fitted cfa object

Value

List with following entries

L	Matrix of item loadings
nu	Vector of item intercepts
psi	Residual covariance matrix
Sigma	Covariance matrix of latent variables
nu	Vector of means of latent variables
...	Further values

See Also

See IRTLikelihood.cfa for extracting the individual likelihood from fitted confirmatory factor analyses.

lavaan::cfa

Examples

#############################################################################
# EXAMPLE 1: CFA data.Students
#############################################################################

library(lavaan)
library(CDM)

data(data.Students, package="CDM")
dat <- data.Students

dat1 <- dat[, paste0( "mj", 1:4 ) ]

#*** Model 1: Unidimensional model scale mj
lavmodel <- "
   mj=~ mj1 + mj2 + mj3 + mj4
   mj ~~ mj
     "
mod1 <- lavaan::cfa( lavmodel, data=dat1, std.lv=TRUE )
summary(mod1, standardized=TRUE, rsquare=TRUE )
# extract parameters
res1 <- TAM::cfa.extract.itempars( mod1 )

## Not run: 
#*** Model 2: Scale mj - explicit modelling of item intercepts
lavmodel <- "
   mj=~ mj1 + mj2 + mj3 + mj4
   mj ~~ mj
   mj1 ~ 1
     "
mod2 <- lavaan::cfa( lavmodel, data=dat1, std.lv=TRUE )
summary(mod2, standardized=TRUE, rsquare=TRUE )
res2 <- TAM::cfa.extract.itempars( mod2 )

#*** Model 3: Tau-parallel measurements scale mj
lavmodel <- "
   mj=~ a*mj1 + a*mj2 + a*mj3 + a*mj4
   mj ~~ 1*mj
   mj1 ~ b*1
   mj2 ~ b*1
   mj3 ~ b*1
   mj4 ~ b*1
     "
mod3 <- lavaan::cfa( lavmodel, data=dat1, std.lv=TRUE )
summary(mod3, standardized=TRUE, rsquare=TRUE )
res3 <- TAM::cfa.extract.itempars( mod3 )

#*** Model 4: Two-dimensional CFA with scales mj and sc
dat2 <- dat[, c(paste0("mj",1:4), paste0("sc",1:4)) ]
# lavaan model with shortage "__" operator
lavmodel <- "
   mj=~ mj1__mj4
   sc=~ sc1__sc4
   mj ~~ sc
   mj ~~ 1*mj
   sc ~~ 1*sc
     "
lavmodel <- TAM::lavaanify.IRT( lavmodel, data=dat2 )$lavaan.syntax
cat(lavmodel)
mod4 <- lavaan::cfa( lavmodel, data=dat2, std.lv=TRUE )
summary(mod4, standardized=TRUE, rsquare=TRUE )
res4 <- TAM::cfa.extract.itempars( mod4 )

## End(Not run)

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