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Hi there, I want to compare three models but I wonder how to do it the cleanest way. It is a mediator

That sounds perfect, thank you so much! On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 3:32:03 PM UTC-7 Ed Merkle

Thanks! On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 01:27 -0700, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal wrote: Thanks so much for this

Thanks, that helps and I believe the issue is already fixed in the github version of blavaan. (see

Hello Ed, Thank you for the fast response, the post, and further clarification. I think v3 will work

Hi Ed, Yep, it seems fixed on my end too. Thank you for looking into it! Re: fixing covariances, the

Apologies for any cross-posting: Dear colleagues, On behalf of local organizers Artur Pokropek and

A couple of ideas, Could run the model with each separate data set and - use the multiple imputation

Last week, I gave a workshop on Bayesian methods and blavaan at the 2025 IMPS conference. Materials

Apologies for cross-posting. Below is an announcement I am forwarding, on behalf of conference

2) Is there an easy way to recover the parameter names as written in the lavaan model syntax? There

Thanks Ed. Regarding relabeling: I see the complications with multiple latent variables. And the

Dear Miguel Would be called "approximate" when you use wiggle. Otherwise, it would be just

Thanks a lot for the sources and additional information on how to approach this further. Great to see

I believe that this problem is now fixed on github. It was an edge case related to missing data

Thank you for all the additional considerations and insights, especially for the reflection on the

Hi Gokay There is no agreement on what "power analysis" means in Bayesian methods. I have

Thanks, I think I see what is going on. It should work if you explicitly add the "ordered"

Lang, Try adding the argument meanstructure = TRUE to your bcfa() command. Some models only require a

This is not how I would recommend to use these models. But, if you want to focus on it, yes, the BIC

Hello Ed, Thank you for your quick reply. It WORKs with the lastest version. Thanks a lot!! Best

HeeDong This is larger issue, how to evaluate model fit Multilevel BSEM? For now, we have develop

Hi Curtis, Ed, and the group, I'll echo Ed in saying this looks to me to be an instance of

blavaan 0.5-6 is now on CRAN, including bug fixes and other small improvements. Ed

Hongwei 1. Is it correct to say that, by default, in blavaan, the first group is the reference group

Thank you so much Ed, it works perfectly now! On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 10:39:58 PM UTC-4 Ed

Yes, with the same argument as lavaan, it is ordered=T On Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 10:16:41 AM UTC+2

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Hi Mauricio, Thanks so much, this is really helpful! Cheers, Pedro Em quarta-feira, 26 de junho de

Hi! yes, it appears that the error occurs, because there are no latent variables in the model, which