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Ross Jacobucci

April 21, 2015

Project TALENT overview

The Project TALENT dataset offers a unique opportunity as it qualifies as a “high-dimensional” dataset and contains traditional psychological variables. Typically, in psychology we don’t encounter datasets (outside of brain research) that lend themselves to techniques designed for very large datasets.

So the question becomes, how can we take advantage of recent advances in Exploratory Data Mining (EDM) techniques?

library(lavaan); library(semPlot);HS <- HolzingerSwineford1939[,7:10]
mod <- ' x1 ~ x2 + x3; x2 ~ x4'
fit <- sem(mod,HS);pars <- parameterEstimates(fit)
semPaths(fit)

fig try

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