LV path analysis with PLS (was Re: PLSR: model notation and reliabilities)
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:31:29PM +0300, I.Ioannou wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:08:53AM +0200, Bj?rn-Helge Mevik wrote:
It seems to me that what you are looking for, is some sort of structured equation models (? la Lisrel). The pls package implements
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and the explained variance seem to be ok, but I'm afraid that this is not my case. I thought that plsr should be used to perform
--snipped-- Well, I should had asked : Is there a way to use plsr to perform (or another R package that implements) "latent variables path analysis with partial least-squares estimation", i.e. the algorithm that was implemented in the old DOS lvpls program ? (http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/Programs/lvplsmanual.pdf) TIA Ioannis Ioannou