PathSelectMP (version 1.1)

ParseTotalEffects: Parse Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects

Description

read .out M Plus files to return total, indirect, and direct effect p-values and names of effects

Usage

ParseTotalEffects(OutFile, FileName, Directry)

Arguments

OutFile

a read, scanned string of the .out M Plus file, see example

FileName

the name of the folder where the .out files are stored for backward selection

Directry

the working directory used to store the folders containing .out files

Value

returns a list with the following objects:

TotalPVals

A list where each element is the p-value of the Total Effect found under Model Indirect IND statements

INDPVals

A list where each element is the p-value of the Total Indirect Effect found under Model Indirect IND statements

INDNames

A matrix where each row contains the names of the variables found under Model Indirect IND statements corresponding to the Total and Total Indirect p-values respectively

DirectPVals

A list where each element is the p-value of the Direct Effect found under Model created using ON statements

DirectNames

A matrix where each row contains the names of the variables found under Model ON statements corresponding to the Direct Effect p-values respectively

Details

the Total effects and Total Indirect Effects results are returned reading IND statements output, and the Direct Effects results are returned by reading the Model ON statements

References

no reference

See Also

See Also as AllBackwardSelect

Examples

# NOT RUN {
Simulated=Simulate(n=1000,MissingYN=0,exampleNum=2)
#MissingYN is 1 for add missing data 0 is default which is don't add missing data
uu=Initialize(Simulated,WhichCat=c(1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,0),
DataFileName="Example2",NameFile="Example2D",Directry=getwd())
AB=AllBackwardSelect(uu[[1]],Directry=getwd())
x=scan(paste(getwd(),"/","Example2D","/","Example2D_","26",".out",sep=""),what=character())
gg=ParseTotalEffects(x,"Example2D",Directry=getwd())
# }