latcontrol (version 0.1.1)

get_resid: Raw and correlation residuals in the evaluation of structural equation models with and without control variables

Description

Computation of the differences between the variances and covariances of items implied by two structural equation models that only differ in terms of inclusion or exclusion of one or more control variable(s). Both models need to be fitted with the R package lavaan (Rosseel, 2012) <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>. The derivation of the methodology employed in this package can be obtained from Blötner (2023) <doi:10.31234/osf.io/dy79z>.

Value

raw

A matrix of unstandardized residuals.

cor

A matrix of correlation residuals.

Arguments

object_with

Fit object from the lavaan package with the control variable(s).

object_without

Fit object from the lavaan package without the control variable(s).

type

Optional. Specifies whether a single-level structural equation model or a multilevel structural equation model is entered (DEFAULT = "simple").

Author

Christian Blötner

References

Blötner, C. (2023). latcontrol: Evaluation of the role of control variables in structural equation models. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dy79z

Rosseel, Y. (2012). lavaan: An R package for structural equation modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v048.i02

Examples

data <- data.frame(i1 = rnorm(100),
                   i2 = rnorm(100),
                   i3 = rnorm(100),
                   i4 = rnorm(100),
                   i5 = rnorm(100),
                   i6 = rnorm(100),
                   i7 = rnorm(100),
                   i8 = rnorm(100),
                   i9 = rnorm(100),
                   i10 = rnorm(100),
                   i11 = rnorm(100),
                   i12 = rnorm(100))

m_with <- 'IV =~ i1 + i2 + i3 + i4
           DV =~ i5 + i6 + i7 + i8
           CV =~ i9 + i10 + i11 + i12

           DV ~ IV + CV
           IV ~ CV'
m_without <- 'IV =~ i1 + i2 + i3 + i4
              DV =~ i5 + i6 + i7 + i8

              DV ~ IV'

fit_with <- sem(m_with, data = data)
fit_without <- sem(m_without, data = data)

get_resid(fit_with, fit_without)