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Automatic construction of simple constraints matrices

Source: R/dataGeneration.R
build_constrMat.Rd

build_constrMat() creates a binary matrix with entries equal to 1 when referring to free loadings, and 0 entries otherwise.

Usage

build_constrMat(
  P,
  Q,
  STRUCT = c("simple", "triangular", "crossed"),
  CROSS = NULL
)

Arguments

P

Number of items.

Q

Number of latent vaiables.

STRUCT

Label for the constraint structure chosen. Only two possible values: 'triangular', 'simple' and 'crossed'.

CROSS

Integer referring to the number of items latent i shares with latent i+1