semtree: Recursive Partitioning for Structural Equation Models

SEM Trees and SEM Forests – an extension of model-based decision trees and forests to Structural Equation Models (SEM). SEM trees hierarchically split empirical data into homogeneous groups each sharing similar data patterns with respect to a SEM by recursively selecting optimal predictors of these differences. SEM forests are an extension of SEM trees. They are ensembles of SEM trees each built on a random sample of the original data. By aggregating over a forest, we obtain measures of variable importance that are more robust than measures from single trees. A description of the method was published by Brandmaier, von Oertzen, McArdle, & Lindenberger (2013) <doi:10.1037/a0030001> and Arnold, Voelkle, & Brandmaier (2020) <doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564403>.

Version: 0.9.20
Depends: R (≥ 2.10), OpenMx (≥ 2.6.9)
Imports: rpart, rpart.plot (≥ 3.0.6), lavaan, cluster, ggplot2, tidyr, methods, strucchange, sandwich, zoo, crayon, clisymbols, future.apply, data.table, expm, gridBase
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, viridis, MASS, psychTools, testthat, future, ctsemOMX
Published: 2024-04-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.semtree
Author: Andreas M. Brandmaier [aut, cre], John J. Prindle [aut], Manuel Arnold [aut], Caspar J. Van Lissa [aut]
Maintainer: Andreas M. Brandmaier <andy at brandmaier.de>
BugReports: https://github.com/brandmaier/semtree/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/brandmaier/semtree
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: NEWS
In views: MachineLearning, MixedModels, Psychometrics
CRAN checks: semtree results

Documentation:

Reference manual: semtree.pdf
Vignettes: Constraints in semtree
SEM Forests
Getting Started with the semtree package
Score-based Tests
Focus parameters in SEM forests

Downloads:

Package source: semtree_0.9.20.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: semtree_0.9.20.zip, r-release: semtree_0.9.20.zip, r-oldrel: semtree_0.9.20.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): semtree_0.9.20.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): semtree_0.9.20.tgz, r-release (x86_64): semtree_0.9.20.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): semtree_0.9.20.tgz
Old sources: semtree archive

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