Message-ID: <51274C4A.5050301@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-02-22T10:45:30Z
From: yrosseel
Subject: total indirect effects in structural equation modeling using lavaan
In-Reply-To: <CAH3pjxywoizPAB=HgwxnmXrhGxCUG=Sp4w+9KvzkFiY5Zd0=Gw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/22/2013 11:40 AM, Marios wrote:
> Thank you very much Yves!
>
> I have managed to get the total indirect effects that i wanted but it
> seems to only work on the unstandardized coefficients. I use
> "standardized =TRUE" in the "summary" command but the "std.all" column
> has the same values as the "Estimate" (unstandardized) column for the
> new parameters defined by the ":=" operator. All other parameters i.e.
> using "~" have been standardized.
>
> How do i go about calculating the indirect effects based on standardized
> coefficients?
You need to install 0.5-12, where the newly 'defined' parameters
(defined by the ":=" operator) are standardized too (just like the other
parameters). This version is not on CRAN yet, but you can install it by
typing in R:
install.packages("lavaan", repos="http://www.da.ugent.be", type="source")
Yves.
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Yves Rosseel -- http://www.da.ugent.be
Department of Data Analysis, Ghent University
http://lavaan.org