[Bug]: Multiple regression SEM - Error: lavaan->lav_samplestats_icov(): sample covariance matrix is not positive-definite

[Miiiqm]

JASP Version

0.19.3

Commit ID

No response

JASP Module

SEM

What analysis are you seeing the problem on?

multiple regression

What OS are you seeing the problem on?

Windows 11

Bug Description

Error: lavaan->lav_samplestats_icov():
sample covariance matrix is not positive-definite

Stack trace
.semComputeResults(modelContainer, dataset, options)

lavaan::sem(model = originalSyntax, data = dataset, group = options[['group']])

eval(sc, parent.frame())

eval(sc, parent.frame())

lavaan::lavaan(model = originalSyntax, data = dataset, group = options[['group']], model.type = 'sem')

lav_lavaan_step05_samplestats(slotSampleStats = slotSampleStats, lavdata = lavdata, lavoptions = lavoptions, WLS.V = WLS.V, NACOV = NACOV, sample.cov = sample.cov, sample.mean = sample.mean, sample.th = sample.th, sample.nobs = sample.nobs, ov.names = ov.names, ov.names.x = ov.names.x, lavpartable = lavpartable)

lav_samplestats_from_data(lavdata = lavdata, lavoptions = lavoptions, WLS.V = WLS.V, NACOV = NACOV)

lav_samplestats_icov(COV = cov[[g]], ridge = 1e-05, x.idx = x.idx[[g]], ngroups = ngroups, g = g)

lav_msg_stop(gettext('sample covariance matrix is not positive-definite'))

stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)

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[github-actions]

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[tomtomme]

@Miiiqm
thx for the report. Any chance you could share your .jasp file with us? Otherwise we cannot fix this error.