Hello,
What is the best way to compute $R^2$ for endogenous variables in OpenMx?
I wrote the function below, I get negative $R^2$ for exogenous (not endogenous) variable. Shouldn't it produce zero for exogenous variables?
Thanks in advance,
Davood
r2sq <- function(model = NULL) { if (is.null(model)) stop("Please provide a model.") maniVar <- model@manifestVars df <- model@data@observed df <- df[maniVar] n <- nrow(df) S <- cov(df) res_mat <- model$S$values[maniVar, maniVar] R2 <- 1 - diag(res_mat) / diag(S) names(R2) <- maniVar return(R2) }
Could you provide a minimal reproducible instance of negative R²s? Every reasonable RAM example script I've tried has given reasonable results. Note also that the R² for exogenous variables won't be exactly zero even in the simplest cases, since
cov()
does its calculation with N-1 in the denominator, but the normal-theory ML variance estimator uses N.