When drawing a diagram using R command pathDiagram. I found that the values labels displayed above edge is not the parameter estimates. the help file of pathDiagram states that:
edge.labels:
"names" to label arrows with parameter names; "values" to label arrows with parameter estimates, or "both".
Thus, the specification of "values" is supposed to add parameter estimates to the edge. however, the estimates I really get is not the values displayed in summary(sem) output and effects(sem). my question is what is the values labeled above each edge?
working with Mplus, I can only speculate.
The values could be: standardized estimates ( betas f.e.; thereby y, x or both can be standardized) or raw estimates (often difficult to interprete). Anyway, the values should correspond to the names of the labels.
Further, it would help to know, which R package you use ... (I've used lavaan but no other R package for SEM).
yes, you are right. I can understand that now. thank you very much!
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