total indirect effects in structural equation modeling using lavaan
On 02/21/2013 03:59 PM, Marios wrote:
My question.......I would like to calculate the total indirect effects of all variables on the right-hand-side of the regression eqn's so that i can work out the total effect (indirect effects + direct effect) I know the direct effect and i can calculate the total indirect effects by hand but i was wondering if there is a function that can calculate this?
In the current version of lavaan (0.5-11), there is no function that will compute all possible indirect/total effects automatically. What you can do is to label the coefficients, and then use the ':=' operator to define the total/indirect effects that you are interested in. Next, you could use se="boot" to get a bootstrap based SE. See the lavaan paper (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v48/i02/) section 7.4 for an example. Yves.