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No user picture. guchriste Joined: 08/31/2018

METASEM with 3 variables

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Hello,

We would like to conduct a METASEM for a model with three variables: Mov (dependant); Psy & pai (independent).

I used the R codes available in Cheung and in Hagger 2018. Unfortunately, I have an error to determine the indirect effect of Pai on Mov through Psy. I can only have the direct effects between the three variables.

I think the problem occurs in stage 2 :

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Picture of user. Arant Joined: 01/23/2017

Cov is not positive definite in tssem2

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Hi Mike,

Thank you so much answering all these questions on this forum. I was able to solve a lot of practical problems I ran into in my study.

But I am not sure how to solve this one properly: (code and data attached)
I successfully ran the tssem1 with my data, and was informed the Cov is not positive definite in the second stage.
I am a little bit confused as the result for tssem1 looks normal.

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No user picture. khaliduni Joined: 05/24/2018

TSSEM_stage2: issue with CIs. And a multiple effect sizes for the same variable

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Hi all,

First of all, I'd like to say thank you to Professor Mike for his efforts in helping all of those who are using his incredible metaSEM package.

Recently, I successfully managed to conduct TSSEM. But, I have some issues with the CIs. The results of stage 2 don't show some of CIs . So, I'm not sure if I'm missing something. (R script, including data, is attached).

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No user picture. Deng xiaoping Joined: 03/30/2018

How to write the syntax of bifactor model for Big Five Model by the metaSEM

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Hi Mike
I have wrote a paper by metaSEM. Now,I am testing the bifactor model for the Big Five model by metaSEM, but I met dfficulties in the stage 2. I written the syntax on the basic of A higher-order confirmatory factor analytic model for the Big Five model(from the book Meta-Analysis A Structural Equation Modeling Approach), but the result was "Error in if (pchisq(chi.squared, df = df, ncp = 0) >= upper) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed".
I'll always be very very grateful for your suggestion.

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No user picture. PeterK Joined: 03/20/2018

Error in metasem, tssem2, “operations are possible only for numeric, logical or complex types”

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I try to estimate parameters in a meta-analytical path model, where A -> B -> C (full mediation) based on a list of correlation matrices in metaSem.

My A1 matrix is as follows:


A1 <- create.mxMatrix(c(0, 0, 0,
indep2med, 0, 0,
0, med2dep, 0),
type="Full", byrow=TRUE, ncol=3, nrow=3,
as.mxMatrix=TRUE)
dimnames(A1)[[1]] <- dimnames(A1)[[2]] <- variable.labels

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No user picture. Eleanor Joined: 09/12/2017

Problem in "tssem1"

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Hi Mike and all,

I'm a new learner of meta-analysis and just try to use metaSEM.

My dataset comprises 90 sets of 19*19 correlation matrix and every one contains some missing values. I'm trying to estimate a TSSEM model but encounter a problem in the first stage.

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No user picture. MaxScott Joined: 01/01/2018

Errors while including covariates to metaSEM

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I'm attempting to add covariates to network meta-analytic model that I`m fitting in metasem. As i know, the network meta-analytic model is designed to model comparisons betwixt a reference group and a set of alternative groups. Each comparison between the reference and other groups is modeled as a independent outcome.

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No user picture. ZHIHONG REN Joined: 12/11/2017

Why I can not get the Goodness-of-fit indices?

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Dear Professor Cheung,

I used metaSEM for structural equation meta-analysis to test the mediation model. However, it is impossible to draw a suitable fitting index.
(ex.
TLI -Inf
CFI 1.00
AIC 0.00
BIC 0.00
)
I don't know whether there is a grammar problem, could you please help me to check it? All data, syntax, and model diagrams are in the attachment.

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No user picture. sorin.valcea Joined: 05/31/2017

Credibility Intervals

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Hello all!

Is there a way to obtain credibility intervals in MetaSEM?

Thanks!

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No user picture. Xie Joined: 12/23/2015

The Missing Coefficients in metaSEM

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Hi Mike,
I am running the metaSEM for a mediation model. The results seem good. But when I tried to extrcat the cofficients, there is a problem. In this model, there are three indepent variables and there should be three correlation coefficients between those three variables as well. But in the summary and coef results, there is only one correlation coefficients, cor = 0.43. I want to report all coefficients in my meta-analysis. So could you please check my code and tell me how to read those three correlation coefficients?

Here is my code.