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# What is this Package for?
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This is a package for Structural Equation Modeling.
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It is still *in development*.
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- Multigroup SEM
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- Sums of arbitrary loss functions (everything the optimizer can handle).
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# What are the merrits?
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We provide fast objective functions, gradients, and for some cases hessians as well as approximations thereof.
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As a user, you can easily define custom loss functions.
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For those, you can decide to provide analytical gradients or use finite difference approximation / automatic differentiation.
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You can choose to mix and match loss functions natively found in this package and those you provide.
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In such cases, you optimize over a sum of different objectives (e.g. ML + Ridge).
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This mix and match strategy also applies to gradients, where you may supply analytic gradients or opt for automatic differentiation or mix analytical and automatic differentiation.
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You may consider using this package if:
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# You may consider using this package if:
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- you want to extend SEM (e.g. add a new objective function) and need an extendable framework
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- you want to extend SEM, and your implementation needs to be fast (because you want to do a simulation, for example)
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- you want to fit the same model(s) to many datasets (bootstrapping, simulation studies)
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- Optim.jl and NLopt.jl to provide a range of different Optimizers/Linesearches.
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- FiniteDiff.jl and ForwardDiff.jl to provide gradients for user-defined loss functions.
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At the moment, we are still working on
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# At the moment, we are still working on:
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- optimizing performance for big models (with hundreds of parameters)
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