OpenMx General Help

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No user picture. Docherty Joined: 02/20/2012

Expired links to scripts in OpenMx guide

Is there anywhere to find the original scripts from the manual for OpenMx? When clicking on the links, each webpage is unavailable. Thanks for any redirection.

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No user picture. Leah Joined: 03/02/2012

Questions about Confidence Intervals

I am trying to get the confidence intervals for the free parameters in an ordinal ACE model. But it seems I screw it up. The range of confidence intervals is quite wide. So I have questions about confidence intervals in OpenMx.

How does OpenMx calculate the confidence intervals? I didn't get much information from 'OpenMx Manual' or 'OpenMx User Guide', but I found some in 'MxManual'. Are the principles of OpenMx and Mx same?

If it's just a silly code error, my code is below.

Any help would be appreciated!

univACEOrdModel <- mxModel("univACEOrd",
mxModel("ACE",

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No user picture. kzhang Joined: 02/29/2012

Model Keeps Running Forever (fails to terminate)

Hello,

First, thanks for providing such a useful software package!

Second, I am having some trouble getting my model to finish running, and since I have to manually stop the script, I don't get any helpful output that would help me debug. Please find attached my script.

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No user picture. dadrivr Joined: 01/19/2010

Include parameter estimates on .Dot plots from omxGraphviz()

After using omxGraphviz() to output a .Dot plot from my OpenMx model, I get a diagram of the model, but no parameter estimates are overlaid on the diagram. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance.

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Picture of user. wuhao_osu Joined: 09/07/2010

Are these available currently or soon?

Hi,

It would be very helpful if the following can be done in OpenMx:

1. Evaluate (for all cases at once) an mxAlgebra that involves definition variables. I think currently one can only evaluate such an mxAlgebra for a single case.

2. Define an user specified objective function that is the sum of a casewise function of the data and parameters. I think currently the casewise function can be defined with definition variables, but is there a way to sum them?

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No user picture. JWiley Joined: 03/25/2011

p-values from summary and mxCompare do not match

Specifically, I fit a model as well as a saturated model. When calling summary, I pass the -2LL and DF from the saturated model, with mxCompare, I compare my model with the saturated. Here are the results, everything else is as expected. Am I missing something?
from summary():
chi-square: 5.35
p: 1

from mxCompare():
minus2LL df AIC diffLL diffdf p
1 5318 742 3834 NA NA NA
2 5323 744 3835 5.35 2 0.0691

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Picture of user. suzannejak Joined: 01/06/2010

model name from output

I am writing a function that returns the standardized parameter estimates for multigroup models. I would like to start the output for each group with something like:

"standardized estimates [model name]"

However, I can not figure out how to extract the model name from the output. Is it possible to get it?

For example if the output object looks like below, how do I extract 'men2'?

MxModel 'men2'
type : default
@matrices : 'L', 'F', 'Q', 'T', and 'K'
@algebras : 'S' and 'M'
@constraints :
@intervals :
@latentVars : none
@manifestVars : none
@data : 5 x 5

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No user picture. mrubin Joined: 10/28/2011
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Picture of user. carey Joined: 10/19/2009

on mxOption()

this is a reply to mike spiegal's comments in the 'mxOption "Cold Start"' thread about the NPSOL options that should be implemented in OpenMx.

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Picture of user. carey Joined: 10/19/2009

mxOption "Cold Start"

reran some old scripts that used to run fine, but under 1.1 the statement
mxOption(thisOMxModel, "Cold Start", "")
now gives the error
"argument 'key' has a value 'Cold Start' that cannot be found in getOption('mxOptions')"

has that been deprecated?

greg