initial feedback on `mxReport`

[tpyork]

• cool that the timestamp is based on when the model was fit. i'm wondering if we should add a timestamp for when the report was generated

• possible to sharpen up the Free Parameters and Goodness of Fit Statistics tables ? Using kable() for this ?

• need to reorder output i think to make more general. 3 main sections. add link to each.

1. OBSERVED DATA SUMMARIES; this reported only once.

   • mean
   • variance
   • min
   • max
   • missing
   • covariance (correlation) matrix; use only outcome variables
   • could add simple histogram plots here

2. SUMMARIES FOR EACH MODEL FIT; each should have its own link.

   • expected mean
   • expected covariance matrix; use only outcome variables
   • num. observed statistics
   • num. free parameters
   • -2LL
   • DF
   • AIC
   • report estimates of free parameters

3. SUMMARY FOR mxCompare(); this should be a single table

[tpyork]

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[aaronwolen]

[aaronwolen]

I modified this design slightly to make the results more explicitly mirror the user's input:

Input	Sections in produced report
mxReport(AdeFit)	Section 1 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AdeFit)
mxReport(list(AdeFit, AeFit)	Section 1 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AeFit)
mxReport(AdeFit, c(AdeFit, AeFit))	Section 1 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AdeFit), Section 3 (AdeFit vs AeFit)
mxReport(AdeFit, AeFit, c(AdeFit, AeFit))	Section 1 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AdeFit), Section 2 (AeFit), Section 3 (AdeFit vs AeFit)

So the rules are:

1. For the first instance of an MxModel produce an Observed Data Summary Section and an Expected Data Summary Section
2. For all subsequent list elements:
   • if it contains a single MxModel, produce an Expected Data Summary Section
   • it it contains multiple MxModels, produce a Model Comparison Section

Does that make sense?

[tpyork]

This looks a lot nicer ! Not sure where you're at but there are a few things I did not see:

• there are no Observed Summary Statistics (Section 1)
• there are no Expected Covariance Matrices for either ADE or AE (Section 2)

[aaronwolen]

Fixed in 7f1f076b.