psych2.5.3 package

Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality Research

00.psych-package

A package for personality, psychometric, and psychological research

alpha

Find two estimates of reliability: Cronbach's alpha and Guttman's Lamb...

anova.psych

Model comparison for regression, mediation, cluster and factor analysi...

AUC

Decision Theory measures of specificity, sensitivity, and d prime

bassAckward

The Bass-Ackward factoring algorithm discussed by Goldberg

best.scales

A bootstrap aggregation function for choosing most predictive unit wei...

bi.bars

Draw pairs of bargraphs based on two groups

bifactor

Seven data sets showing a bifactor solution.

bigCor

Find large correlation matrices by stitching together smaller ones fou...

biplot.psych

Draw biplots of factor or component scores by factor or component load...

block.random

Create a block randomized structure for n independent variables

bock.table

Bock and Liberman (1970) data set of 1000 observations of the LSAT

circ.tests

Apply four tests of circumplex versus simple structure

cluster.cor

Find correlations of composite variables (corrected for overlap) from ...

cluster.fit

cluster Fit: fit of the cluster model to a correlation matrix

cluster.loadings

Find item by cluster correlations, corrected for overlap and reliabili...

cluster.plot

Plot factor/cluster loadings and assign items to clusters by their hig...

cluster2keys

Convert a cluster vector (from e.g., kmeans) to a keys matrix suitable...

cohen.d

Find Cohen d and confidence intervals

comorbidity

Convert base rates of two diagnoses and their comorbidity into phi, Yu...

congruence

Matrix and profile congruences and distances

cor.ci

Bootstrapped and normal confidence intervals for raw and composite cor...

cor.plot

Create an image plot for a correlation or factor matrix

cor.smooth

Smooth a non-positive definite correlation matrix to make it positive ...

cor.wt

The sample size weighted correlation may be used in correlating aggreg...

cor2dist

Convert correlations to distances (necessary to do multidimensional sc...

corFiml

Find a Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) correlation or covar...

corr.test

Find the correlations, sample sizes, and probability values between el...

correct.cor

Find dis-attenuated correlations given correlations and reliabilities

cortest.bartlett

Bartlett's test that a correlation matrix is an identity matrix

cortest.mat

Chi square tests of whether a single matrix is an identity matrix, or ...

cosinor

Functions for analysis of circadian or diurnal data

count.pairwise

Count number of pairwise cases for a data set with missing (NA) data a...

cta

Simulate the C(ues) T(endency) A(ction) model of motivation

densityBy

Create a 'violin plot' or density plot of the distribution of a set of...

deprecated

Deprecated Exploratory Factor analysis functions. Please use fa

describe.by

Basic summary statistics by group

describe

Basic descriptive statistics useful for psychometrics

diagram

Helper functions for drawing path model diagrams

draw.tetra

Draw a correlation ellipse and two normal curves to demonstrate tetrac...

dummy.code

Create dummy coded variables

dwyer

8 cognitive variables used by Dwyer for an example.

eigen.loadings

Convert eigen vectors and eigen values to the more normal (for psychol...

ellipses

Plot data and 1 and 2 sigma correlation ellipses

error.bars.by

Plot means and confidence intervals for multiple groups

error.bars

Plot means and confidence intervals

error.circles

Two way plots of means, error bars, and sample sizes

error.crosses

Plot x and y error bars

error.dots

Show a dot.chart with error bars for different groups or variables

esem

Perform and Exploratory Structural Equation Model (ESEM) by using fact...

fa.diagram

Graph factor loading matrices

fa.extension

Apply Dwyer's factor extension to find factor loadings for extended va...

fa.lookup

A set of functions for factorial and empirical scale construction

fa.parallel

Scree plots of data or correlation matrix compared to random ``paralle...

fa.random

A first approximation to Random Effects Exploratory Factor Analysis

fa

Exploratory Factor analysis using MinRes (minimum residual) as well as...

fa.sort

Sort factor analysis or principal components analysis loadings

faCor

Correlations between two factor analysis solutions

factor.congruence

Coefficient of factor congruence

factor.fit

How well does the factor model fit a correlation matrix. Part of the V...

factor.model

Find R = F F' + U2 is the basic factor model

factor.residuals

R* = R- F F'

factor.rotate

``Hand" rotate a factor loading matrix

factor.scores

Various ways to estimate factor scores for the factor analysis model

factor.stats

Find various goodness of fit statistics for factor analysis and princi...

factor2cluster

Extract cluster definitions from factor loadings

faMulti

Multi level (hierarchical) factor analysis

faRotate

Multiple rotations of factor loadings to find local minima

fisherz

Transformations of r, d, and t including Fisher r to z and z to r and ...

fparse

Parse and extend formula input from a model and return the DV(s), IV(s...

Garcia

Data from the sexism (protest) study of Garcia, Schmitt, Branscome, an...

geometric.mean

Find the geometric mean of a vector or columns of a data.frame.

glb.algebraic

Find the greatest lower bound to reliability.

guttman

Alternative estimates of test reliabiity

harmonic.mean

Find the harmonic mean of a vector, matrix, or columns of a data.frame

headtail

Combine calls to head and tail

ICC

Intraclass Correlations (ICC1, ICC2, ICC3 from Shrout and Fleiss)

ICLUST.cluster

Function to form hierarchical cluster analysis of items

iclust.diagram

Draw an ICLUST hierarchical cluster structure diagram

ICLUST.graph

create control code for ICLUST graphical output

ICLUST

iclust: Item Cluster Analysis -- Hierarchical cluster analysis using p...

ICLUST.rgraph

Draw an ICLUST graph using the Rgraphviz package

ICLUST.sort

Sort items by absolute size of cluster loadings

interp.median

Find the interpolated sample median, quartiles, or specific quantiles ...

irt.fa

Item Response Analysis by Exploratory Factor Analysis of tetrachoric/p...

irt.item.diff.rasch

Simple function to estimate item difficulties using IRT concepts

irt.person.rasch

Item Response Theory estimate of theta (ability) using a Rasch (like) ...

irt.responses

Plot probability of multiple choice responses as a function of a laten...

kaiser

Apply the Kaiser normalization when rotating factors

kappa

Find Cohen's kappa and weighted kappa coefficients for correlation of ...

KMO

Find the Kaiser, Meyer, Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy

lmCor

Multiple Regression, Canonical and Set Correlation from matrix or raw ...

logistic

Logistic transform from x to p and logit transform from p to x

lowerUpper

Combine two square matrices to have a lower off diagonal for one, uppe...

make.keys

Create a keys matrix for use by score.items or cluster.cor

manhattan

"Manhattan" plots of correlations with a set of criteria.

mat.sort

Sort the elements of a correlation matrix to reflect factor loadings

matrix.addition

A function to add two vectors or matrices

mediate

Estimate and display direct and indirect effects of mediators and mode...

misc

Miscellaneous helper functions for the psych package

mixed.cor

Find correlations for mixtures of continuous, polytomous, and dichotom...

mssd

Find von Neuman's Mean Square of Successive Differences

multi.hist

Multiple histograms with density and normal fits on one page

multilevel.reliability

Find and plot various reliability/gneralizability coefficients for mul...

omega.graph

Graph hierarchical factor structures

omega

Calculate McDonald's omega estimates of general and total factor satur...

outlier

Find and graph Mahalanobis squared distances to detect outliers

p.rep

Find the probability of replication for an F, t, or r and estimate eff...

paired.r

Test the difference between (un)paired correlations

pairs.panels

SPLOM, histograms and correlations for a data matrix

parcels

Find miniscales (parcels) of size 2 or 3 from a set of items

partial.r

Find the partial correlations for a set (x) of variables with set (y) ...

phi.demo

A simple demonstration of the Pearson, phi, and polychoric corelation

phi

Find the phi coefficient of correlation between two dichotomous variab...

phi2poly

Convert a phi coefficient to a tetrachoric correlation

Pinv

Compute the Moore-Penrose Pseudo Inverse of a matrix

plot.psych

Plotting functions for the psych package of class ``psych"

polar

Convert Cartesian factor loadings into polar coordinates

polychor.matrix

Phi or Yule coefficient matrix to polychoric coefficient matrix

predict.psych

Prediction function for factor analysis, principal components (pca), b...

predicted.validity

Find the predicted validities of a set of scales based on item statist...

principal

Principal components analysis (PCA)

print.psych

Print and summary functions for the psych class

Promax

Perform Procustes,bifactor, promax or targeted rotations and return th...

r.test

Tests of significance for correlations

range.correction

Correct correlations for restriction of range. (Thorndike Case 2)

reliability

Reports 7 different estimates of scale reliabity including alpha, omeg...

rescale

Function to convert scores to ``conventional " metrics

residuals.psych

Extract residuals from various psych objects

reverse.code

Reverse the coding of selected items prior to scale analysis

RMSEA

Root Mean Squared Error of Approximation from chisq, df, and n

RV

Three measures of the correlations between sets of variables

scaling.fits

Test the adequacy of simple choice, logistic, or Thurstonian scaling.

scatter.hist

Draw a scatter plot with associated X and Y histograms, densities and ...

Schmid.Leiman

12 variables created by Schmid and Leiman to show the Schmid-Leiman Tr...

schmid

Apply the Schmid Leiman transformation to a correlation matrix

score.alpha

Score scales and find Cronbach's alpha as well as associated statistic...

score.irt

Find Item Response Theory (IRT) based scores for dichotomous or polyto...

score.items

Score item composite scales and find Cronbach's alpha, Guttman lambda ...

score.multiple.choice

Score multiple choice items and provide basic test statistics

scoreWtd

Score items using regression or correlation based weights

scrub

A utility for basic data cleaning and recoding. Changes values outside...

SD

Find the Standard deviation for a vector, matrix, or data.frame - do n...

sim.anova

Simulate a 3 way balanced ANOVA or linear model, with or without repea...

sim.congeneric

Simulate a congeneric data set with or without minor factors

sim.hierarchical

Create a population or sample correlation matrix, perhaps with hierarc...

sim.irt

Functions to simulate psychological/psychometric data.

sim.item

Generate simulated data structures for circumplex, spherical, or simpl...

sim.multilevel

Simulate multilevel data with specified within group and between group...

sim.omega

Further functions to simulate psychological/psychometric data.

sim

Functions to simulate psychological/psychometric data.

sim.structural

Create correlation matrices or data matrices with a particular measure...

sim.VSS

create VSS like data

simulation.circ

Simulations of circumplex and simple structure

skew

Calculate univariate or multivariate (Mardia's test) skew and kurtosis...

smc

Find the Squared Multiple Correlation (SMC) of each variable with the ...

spider

Make "radar" or "spider" plots.

statsBy

Find statistics (including correlations) within and between groups for...

structure.diagram

Draw a structural equation model specified by two measurement models a...

structure.list

Create factor model matrices from an input list

super.matrix

Form a super matrix from two sub matrices.

table2matrix

Convert a table with counts to a matrix or data.frame representing tho...

test.irt

A simple demonstration (and test) of various IRT scoring algorthims.

test.psych

Testing of functions in the psych package

testRetest

Find various test-retest statistics, including test, person and item r...

tetrachor

Tetrachoric, polychoric, biserial and polyserial correlations from var...

thurstone

Thurstone Case V scaling

tr

Find the trace of a square matrix

unidim

Several indices of the unidimensionality of a set of variables.

VSS.parallel

Compare real and random VSS solutions

VSS.plot

Plot VSS fits

VSS

Apply the Very Simple Structure, MAP, and other criteria to determine ...

VSS.scree

Plot the successive eigen values for a scree test

winsor

Find the Winsorized scores, means, sds or variances for a vector, matr...

Yule

From a two by two table, find the Yule coefficients of association, co...

A general purpose toolbox developed originally for personality, psychometric theory and experimental psychology. Functions are primarily for multivariate analysis and scale construction using factor analysis, principal component analysis, cluster analysis and reliability analysis, although others provide basic descriptive statistics. Item Response Theory is done using factor analysis of tetrachoric and polychoric correlations. Functions for analyzing data at multiple levels include within and between group statistics, including correlations and factor analysis. Validation and cross validation of scales developed using basic machine learning algorithms are provided, as are functions for simulating and testing particular item and test structures. Several functions serve as a useful front end for structural equation modeling. Graphical displays of path diagrams, including mediation models, factor analysis and structural equation models are created using basic graphics. Some of the functions are written to support a book on psychometric theory as well as publications in personality research. For more information, see the <https://personality-project.org/r/> web page.