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quadratic effects

library(modsem)

In essence quadratic effects are just a special case of interaction effects – where a variable has an interaction effect with itself. Thus, all of the modsem methods can be used to estimate quadratic effects as well.

Here you can see a very simple example using the LMS-approach.

library(modsem)
m1 <- '
# Outer Model
X =~ x1 + x2 + x3
Y =~ y1 + y2 + y3
Z =~ z1 + z2 + z3

# Inner model
Y ~ X + Z + Z:X + X:X
'

est1Lms <- modsem(m1, data = oneInt, method = "lms")
summary(est1Lms)

In this example we have a simple model with two quadratic effects and one interaction effect, using the QML- and double centering approach, using the data from a subset of the PISA 2006 data.

m2 <- '
ENJ =~ enjoy1 + enjoy2 + enjoy3 + enjoy4 + enjoy5
CAREER =~ career1 + career2 + career3 + career4
SC =~ academic1 + academic2 + academic3 + academic4 + academic5 + academic6
CAREER ~ ENJ + SC + ENJ:ENJ + SC:SC + ENJ:SC
'

est2Dblcent <- modsem(m2, data = jordan)
est2Qml <- modsem(m2, data = jordan, method = "qml")
summary(est2Qml)

Note: The other approaches work as well, but might be quite slow depending on the number of interaction effects (particularly for the LMS- and constrained approach).

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