Longitudinal SEM and Latent Growth Curves

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No user picture. Eid Michael Joined: 01/11/2010

Individually-varying times of observations

I am analyzing data from an ambulatory assessment study and I want to specify a latent first-order autoregressive model. Because the time points are randomly selected for each individual, the data has an unbalanced structure: The occasions are not equally spaced and the time lags differ between individuals and between different occasions.

I think that in order to specify such a model the autoregressive parameter has to have the individual time lag in the exponent: beta^time-lag(individual).

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No user picture. newsomjr Joined: 10/13/2009

Need help with my script

Hello all,

I attended the workshop back in March, and am trying to estimate a longitudinal model. I have been working with the script provided at the training, but have modified it slightly because I am not interested looking at sex effects at this point. When I run the script, it appears as though it is running but when I look at the fit statistics this is what I get: EP = 0, -2LL = , df = 0, AIC = .

Could someone please take a look at my script and see where I have gone wrong? Thanks for any help!

Jamie

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Picture of user. ngillespie Joined: 09/24/2009

Error when fitting latent growth curve using ordinal data and sex definition vars

Hi all,
I'm getting the following error when after running a latent growth curve with ordinal data and sex definition variables I ask for the summary output:

> lgcOrdACESumm <- summary(lgcOrdACEFit)
Error in omxConvertLabel(refNames[j], modelname, dataname, namespace) :
trying to get slot "name" from an object of a basic class ("NULL") with no slots

Cheers,

Nathan

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Picture of user. ngillespie Joined: 09/24/2009

Error when fitting definition variables to means in Latent Growth Curve Models

Hi all,
I'm fitting a latent growth curve model to 3 measures of raw continuous personality data. The model includes means on the latent intercept and slope factors to which I'm adding each twin's sex as a definition variable. When running the model I get the following error:

Error in all.na(labels) : object 'data.sex_1' not found
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> lgc2ACEFit <- mxRun(lgc2ACEModel) # Run Latent Growth Curive ACE model
Error in cat("Running", model@name, "\n") :
object 'lgc2ACEModel' not found

Any suggestions?

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No user picture. Math Wolf Joined: 10/23/2009

Standard Error estimate

I'm have been fitting cross-lagged models in OpenMx, but I have some questions on the standard errors.

The same models can be fitted with other software, for example SAS and I do get, for exactly the same model the same estimates but different standard errors. To test this, I removed all missing values (as SAS and OpenMx handle them differently) and built 3 different models. As an illustration, I'll give the simplest model here.

* There are 124 subjects, each measured at 7 days.
* For each subject at each day, there are two variables measure, let's call them X and Y here.

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Picture of user. csantos Joined: 09/16/2009

'Linear Growth Curve Model, Path Specification' NPSOL returned a non-zero status code 1

Hey folks,

Can someone give me a hand on what I'm doing wrong, please?

Thanks,
Carlos.
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require(OpenMx)
#data
myLongitudinalData <- read.table("/home/pos/carlosdenner/Desktop/membersovertime.txt",header=TRUE)
names(myLongitudinalData)

growthCurveModel <- mxModel("Linear Growth Curve Model, Path Specification",
type="RAM",
mxData(myLongitudinalData,
type="raw"),
manifestVars=c("members1", "members2", "members3"),
latentVars=c("intercept","slope"),
# residual variances

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No user picture. kgrimm Joined: 08/04/2009

nonlinear constraints

I was wondering if nonlinear constraints were available and if so, if additional parameters can be incorporated into the nonlinear constraint. An example involves nonlinear growth curves (Browne, 1993).