metaSEM (version 1.4.0)

create.Fmatrix: Create an F matrix to select observed variables

Description

It creates an F matrix to select observed variables for wls function.

Usage

create.Fmatrix(x, name, as.mxMatrix=TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

A vector of logical type

name

Name of the matrix. If it is missing, "Fmatrix" will be used.

as.mxMatrix

Logical. If it is TRUE, the output is a matrix of MxMatrix-class. If it is FALSE, it is a numeric matrix.

...

Not used.

Author

Mike W.-L. Cheung <[e-mail]>

See Also

as.mxMatrix, create.mxMatrix, wls

Examples

## Select the first 3 variables while the other 2 variables are latent.
create.Fmatrix(c(1,1,1,0,0))
# FullMatrix 'Fmatrix' 
#
# @labels: No labels assigned.
#
# @values
#      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
# [1,]    1    0    0    0    0
# [2,]    0    1    0    0    0
# [3,]    0    0    1    0    0
#
# @free: No free parameters.
#
# @lbound: No lower bounds assigned.
#
# @ubound: No upper bounds assigned.

create.Fmatrix(c(1,1,1,0,0), as.mxMatrix=FALSE)
#      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
# [1,]    1    0    0    0    0
# [2,]    0    1    0    0    0
# [3,]    0    0    1    0    0