Function for bootstrapped confidence intervals of standardized solution?

[David Disabato]

Hi lavaan group,

I was wondering if `lavaan` or `semTools` has created a function for automating bootstrapped confidence intervals for the standardized solution from SEM models estimated using `lavaan`. I noticed the standardizedSolution() function does not have a `boot.ci.type` argument like the parameterEstimates() function does. The standardizedSolution() help page does not mention bootstrapped confidence intervals and says if the `ci` argument is TRUE, that "simple symmetric confidence intervals are added to the output". Thus, while the standardizedSolution() function can provide confidence intervals of the standardized solution, I assume this means it can not provide bootstrapped confidence intervals. 

I noticed there is a post from 2014 that shows a way to do this using the bootstrapLavaan() function: https://groups.google.com/g/lavaan/c/pIXy7NUa3c0/m/hVPH3zClaYcJ. However, it has been 7 years since then and I was wondering if lavaan, semTools, or any other R package has created a function for automating the calculation of bootstrapped confidence intervals of the standardized solution?

If not, I guess you could treat this post as a feature request. I think this would be of interest to a lot of users as social science researchers are more and more interested in having 1) more interpretable (e.g., standardized) effect sizes, 2) confidence intervals around those effect sizes, 3) robust versions (e.g., bootstrapping) of such confidence intervals.

Best,

-David

[Terrence Jorgensen]

I was wondering if `lavaan` or `semTools` has created a function for automating bootstrapped confidence intervals for the standardized solution from SEM models estimated using `lavaan`

I just added that option to semTools::monteCarloCI().  You can access it in the development version:

devtools::install_github("simsem/semTools/semTools")

Monte Carlo CIs are a parametric bootstrap, which is much less computationally intensive.   The help page has a reference you can read.

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Assistant Professor, Methods and Statistics

Research Institute for Child Development and Education, the University of Amsterdam

http://www.uva.nl/profile/t.d.jorgensen

[HG Wells]

Hello Terrence,

I am using the semTools::monteCarloCI(). function, it is great (very fast... !) Thank you very much for it.

I was wondering, how to get standardized estimates (the function seems to automatically return non-standardized versions from a lavaan fitted object)?

Emanuele

[Christian Arnold]

Hi Emanuele et al. I will shortly post an application for testing. It should be able to solve this problem and similar problems (hopefully). The coefficients are bootstrapped, but I think you can do what you want to do. Best. Christian 

[Emanuele Fino]

Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Emanuele

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[Christian Arnold]

see: https://groups.google.com/g/lavaan/c/0RSsh4M6zQg

Feedback is very welcome :-)

[Ranaivo Rasolofoson]

Thank you so much for this Christian. It will be super useful for many.

Ranaivo 

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[HG Wells]

Hello, thank you so much!!!

This is so helpful, thank you for doing this.

I've just run it on some data and it worked well, this is much appreciated :)

Emanuele

[Christian Arnold]

Thank you for your feedback :-) 

Best

Christian

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[Terrence Jorgensen]

I was wondering, how to get standardized estimates (the function seems to automatically return non-standardized versions from a lavaan fitted object)?

In the development version, you can simply set standardized = TRUE.  Find instructions how to install it here: https://github.com/simsem/semTools/wiki

This will be much faster than bootstrapping.

[Emanuele Fino]

Hello, thank you so much! Very helpful and much appreciated :)

Emanuele

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