Confidence Intervals for a 'stdmod_lavaan' Class Object — confint.stdmod

Return the confidence interval of the standardized moderation effect in the output of stdmod_lavaan().

# S3 method for stdmod_lavaan
confint(object, parm, level = 0.95, ...)

Arguments

object: The output of stdmod_lavaan().
parm: Ignored. Always return the bootstrap confidence interval of the standardized moderation effect.
level: The level of confidence, default is .95, returning the 95% confidence interval.
...: Additional arguments. Ignored by the function.

Value

A one-row matrix of the confidence intervals.

Details

If bootstrapping is used to form the confidence interval by stdmod_lavaan(), users can request the percentile confidence interval of using the stored bootstrap estimate.

Author

Shu Fai Cheung https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-9448

Examples


# Load a test data of 500 cases
dat <- test_mod1
library(lavaan)

mod <-
"
med ~ iv + mod + iv:mod + cov1
dv ~ med + cov2
"
fit <- sem(mod, dat)
coef(fit)
#>     med~iv    med~mod med~iv:mod   med~cov1     dv~med    dv~cov2   med~~med 
#>      0.221      0.104      0.257      0.104      0.246      0.191      0.201 
#>     dv~~dv 
#>      0.169 

# Compute the standardized moderation effect and
# its confidence interval based on nonparametric bootstrapping
set.seed(8479075)
system.time(out_boot <- stdmod_lavaan(fit = fit,
                                      x = "iv",
                                      y = "med",
                                      w = "mod",
                                      x_w = "iv:mod",
                                      boot_ci = TRUE,
                                      R = 50))
#>    user  system elapsed 
#>   0.869   0.031   0.877 
# In real analysis, R should be at least 2000.
confint(out_boot)
#>                2.5 %    97.5 %
#> med~iv:mod 0.2957007 0.5230237