[R] Results of CFA with Lavaan

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I am using missing = 'fiml', which would require estimating intercepts.

I figured they would effect my overall model fit, but can I still
estimate my loading coefficients the same way?

The warning would be helpful, but if I had looked closer into the
'fiml' option I might have been able to figure it out myself.

Thanks,
Sam

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:02 PM, yrosseel <yrosseel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 05:21 PM, R Help wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I think this is the last question I have.  My model is producing
>> an estimate of intercepts for my variables along with my loadings.
>>  From the documentation it appears that this is controlled by the
>> meanstructure   option in cfa.  It says that setting it to TRUE includes
>> the intercepts, and setting it to "default" means thatthe value is set
>> based on the user-specified model, and/or the values of other
>> arguments.  I've included my model specification below, and I would
>> prefer not to fit intercepts, but setting it to FALSE does not seem to
>> achieve this.
>
> Several arguments of the cfa() function force meanstructure=TRUE (and
> indeed, silently overriding the meanstructure=FALSE option if specified by
> the user; perhaps, lavaan should spit out a warning if this happens).
>
> The following argument choices force meanstructure to be TRUE (if there is
> only a single group):
>
> - estimator = "mlm" or "mlf" or "mlr"
> - missing = "ml" or "fiml"
>
> Did you use any one of those arguments?
>
> But why would you prefer not to fit the intercepts? If there are no
> restrictions on the intercepts/means, fitting them should have no effect on
> your model fit whatsoever.
>
> Yves Rosseel
> http://lavaan.org
>