Structural equation model in R
The lavaan package is also a very good option (it's essentially an R version of Mplus) and has a very active mailing list, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lavaan Regarding a book, I would recommend Bollen's SEM book ( https://www.amazon.com/Structural-Equations-Latent-Variables-Kenneth/dp/0471011711), it's old but still quite good and relevant. Rex Kline's book is also good, but hated by methodologists for being too formulaic and some of his recommendations ( https://www.guilford.com/books/Principles-and-Practice-of-Structural-Equation-Modeling/Rex-Kline/9781462523344). Unlike Rich's recommendations, these books are more for social scientists, but the books are helpful nonetheless. On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, mehdi heydari wrote:
I want to do SEM on my dataset (plant ecology) in R. Can you introduce someone to help me?
Mehdi, I highly recommend Jim Grace's book, "Structural Equation Modeling and Natural Systems" and his 2008 paper, "Structural Equation Modeling for Observational Studies" (The Journal of Wildlife Management 72(1):14-22.) The second is valuable for environmental and regulatory science needs as these data are all observational and not experimental. The R repo contains (at least) the packages 'sem' and 'OpenMX'. HTH, Rich
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