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umxACE with summary data
Hi all,
I'm trying to do something rather simple - a univariate ACE model (using umxACE) with summary data (either correlation or covariance), but until now I used only raw data. I saw in the documentation this possibility is supported by umxACE, however, I can't seem to make it work.
I've tried several options attached below (mzCorDF - the correlation as a data frame, mzCorMatrix - the correlation (or covariance) matrix of twin 1 and twin 2 of the trait.
What kind of input the function expects for it to understand it is summary data?
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metaFIML to handle missing covariates
Dear Dr. Cheung and forum pannels,
This is Jihyun, a doctoral student.
I have a question about (currently) two approaches to use FIML to handle missing covariates in meta-regression.
At first, I had adopted the code in Dr. Cheung's book (2015) using RAM formulation and recently also tried to use metaFIML after it was introduced. However, I noticed that the two approaches showed pretty big differences in the results (parameter estimates and standard error estimates).
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Hello,
I am conducting a meta-analytic study to confirm the factorial structure of a scale using two-stage structural equation modelling.
The scale is having two subscales namely, burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS), which load on a latent factor called "Compassion Fatigue". I want to confirm its factorial structure by meta-analysing the correlation coefficients across nine studies identified in the literature. The code I have written works fine for the first stage (TSSEM1) but it is showing an error for the second stage (TSSEM2).
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umxCP with two latent variables that loads in only part of the indicators
Hi Tim and Mike,
This is the first time I am playing with real data, and since I understand lavaans syntax better than openMx's I decided to start with umx.
I am trying to specify a CP model with two latents, but my measured indicators represents parenting style and personality (big5), 10 variables in total. See fig 1. I think they are better conceptualized as two latents that can correlate, but only loads in part of the variables, the five personality traits and the five parenting styles.

Diagnosing Optimization Issues
Hello,
What approaches can be taken to diagnose issues related to optimization (i.e., when OpenMX status1 is not 0 or 1 even after using the rerun() function)? I have reviewed the status codes in the OpenMX documentation and I have tried mxCheckIdentification. I have also increased extraTries and I have played around with starting values for slope coefficients. However, I am running into issues and I am not sure why so I would like to see how I can diagnose what is going on.
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bootstrapping indirect effects
Hi Mike,
Hope you're well. I was just wondering whether there's a simple way to bootstrap the indirect effect in metasem (tssem2 or osmasem).
Thanks,
Best wishes,
Pasco
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Imputing correlations in metasem?
Dear all!
I have another question and I was wondering if you could enlighten me.
I want to run an analysis that has 2 independent variables, 3 mediators, and 1 outcome variable.
One of the issues that I am having is that, because of my inclusion criteria, I do not have studies that included correlations between two mediators. This means, that I cannot estimate the pooled correlation matrix hence it is impossible to run the full model.
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Missing values for impliedR() and few studies to pool
Hello everyone,
I am currently conducting TSSEM using correlation matrices from primary mediation studies. I ran into some problems during the process and hoped that someone could help me.

Differences between metafor and tssem1?
Hi all!
I hope everyone is well.
I was hoping someone could help me with an issue I am having. I am running a model, but first I wanted to explore the correlation matrix as you would normally do. For this, I created the correlation matrix using the metafor package. After this, I run the model using the metaSEM package, and when I checked the tssem1 results, I realised that the correlation results were very different in magnitude (significance levels did not vary).
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Implementing ImpliedR in TSSEM
Hello, I was hoping someone might be able to help with use of the impliedR function in the context of a TSSEM model. I am conducting a 2-stage SEM following the Cheung guide here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metaSEM/vignettes/Examples.html#two-stage-structural-equation-modeling-tssem
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