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Re: st: confa with R2>1
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Anders Alexandersson <[email protected]>
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Re: st: confa with R2>1
Date
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:07:56 -0400
It's a "Heywood case", so maybe you specified the wrong model.
Heywood cases are discussed, for example, on pages 362-363 in the SJ
9(3) article for confa:
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0169
An alternative to the user-written -confa- is the new -sem- command in Stata 12.
Anders Alexandersson
[email protected]
Sorado <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran a confa model and found that one of my variables has an R2>1 (see variable called BORED). Did I specify something wrong?
>
> If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> ****OUTPUT BELOW*******
>
> . confa (neg: ANG ASH GUILT FEAR) (pos: JOYFUL EXCITED HOPE) (amb: IRRITATED BORED) (dep: POWERL CONF DESPAIR), from(ones)
>
[...]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
[...]
> Var[error] |
> BORED | -.7293374 .1959337 -3.72 0.000 -1.11336 -.3453144
[...]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> R2 |
[...]
> BORED | 1.5988
[...]
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