Build Political Democracy Model
You can now expand your model specification skills to a new dataset. Create a model of Political Democracy ratings from 1960 using the PoliticalDemocracy
dataset. This dataset includes ratings of politics in developing countries from the 1960s.
Variables y1
, y2
, y3
, and y4
measure freedom of the press, freedom of political opposition, election fairness, and effectiveness of the legislature. You should create a model with one latent variable, named poldemo60
, and four manifest variables.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Structural Equation Modeling with lavaan in R
Instruções do exercício
- Name your model
politics.model
. - Name your latent variable
poldemo60
. - Use variables
y1
,y2
,y3
, andy4
as the manifest variables.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Load the lavaan library
library(lavaan)
# Look at the dataset
data(PoliticalDemocracy)
head(PoliticalDemocracy)
# Define your model specification