Ex ante forecasting from structural equation models (SEM package)

Dear Bernhard,

What you want are the reduced-form coefficients implied by the structural 
form of the model. I don't know a simple way of getting this from the RAM 
formulation of the model, short of constructing the coefficient matrices A 
and B from the estimates, which shouldn't be too onerous.

As far as I know, there are no methods for objects of class "sem" other 
than what's included in the package. Suggestions are welcome, of course.

Sorry,
  John

Dear Helplist,

I want to produce forecasts from a structural equation model. With the SEM
package the model setup and its estimation is possible. However, I have not
figured out how to obtain ex ante forecasts, i.e. applying the Gauss-Seidel
algorithm to the estimated structural equations for provided values of the
exogenous variables (i.e.: y_t = -inv(A)*B*x_t).

Does anyone know if the there is a function for producing such forecasts via
Gauss-Seidel or what other functions are supporting objects of class 'SEM'
or model notations in 'RAM' for achieving this task?

Many thks,
Bernhard

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
email: jfox at mcmaster.ca
phone: 905-525-9140x23604
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