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Covariances when adding product terms #6

Open jhorzek opened 11 months ago

jhorzek commented 11 months ago

When adding product terms in case of linear = FALSE and use_definition_variables = FALSE, (co-) variances of all exogenous variables are automatically added. These are not freely estimated but set to the observed covariances. This should, in theory, be identical to an estimation. Limitations:

jhorzek commented 11 months ago

We will keep adding product terms as an option, but default to using definition variables and OpenMx. For the time being, there is no further development of the product approach.