How do I visualize my SEM model in the builder with written code.

[Tom Kisters]

Dear Stata Users,

This link explains that I can either write a SEM model with the SEM builder or the command syntax. What I would however like to do is visualize the model I wrote with the command syntax,using the SEM builder (without actually making it, just using the command syntax).

So my syntax is for example as follows:

 . sem (L1 -> m1 m2)       (L2 -> m3 m4)       (L3 <- L1 L2)       (L3 -> m5 m6 m7)

Is there a way to do this?

[Andrew Musau]

I do not use sem, but this has been discussed before in the forum: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...ng-sem-command. It may be the same thing as finding the original function from an inverse in mathematics (i.e., undoing a function). This is not possible for all functions.