Unstandardized ML factor scores
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I'd like to obtain unstandardized factor scores for a single factor CFA, with the factor scores on the same metric (approximately the same mean, SD, range, distribution) as the indicators. There is missingness in the data, so ML factor scores are preferred. How can I do this in OpenMX? I read Appendix A from Estabrook and Neale's (2013) paper on estimating ML factor scores in OpenMx:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773873/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773873/
Does this approach calculate standardized or unstandardized factor scores? If standardized, how can I generate unstandardized factor scores with ML instead? Note that I don't want to transform standardized factor scores to unstandardized ones because the distributions of my indicators are non-normal (i.e., the normal distribution of standardized factor scores cannot be easily transformed to the raw metric of my indicators). In other words, I'd like to estimate unstandardized factor scores on the raw metric of the indicators without first estimating them on a standardized metric.
mxFactorScores ... next release
https://github.com/OpenMx/OpenMx/commit/fa457b305280370dc5faedb012609061700f095a
As far as the scale, the factor scores will have whatever scale you set for the latent variables. If you identify the model by having fixed zero latent mean and fixed unit latent variance, then the factor scores are in z-score units. If you identify the model by setting the first factor loading to one, then the the factor scores are in the units of the first indicator.
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In reply to mxFactorScores ... next release by mhunter
RAM models
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In reply to RAM models by dadrivr
planned
https://github.com/OpenMx/OpenMx/blob/fa457b305280370dc5faedb012609061700f095a/inst/models/nightly/FactorScores.R#L21
for a LISREL path model with factor scores.
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In reply to mxFactorScores ... next release by mhunter
mxAlgebraFromString?
> r1 <- mxFactorScores(factorRun, 'ML')
Error in mxFactorScores(factorRun, "ML") :
could not find function "mxAlgebraFromString"
I cannot find any information on "mxAlgebraFromString". It doesn't seem to be available in the latest version of OpenMx.
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alpha test
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