Lavaan Tutorial 2023

[Michael Filsecker]

Dear Lavaan Team,

reading the tutorial for 2023, it is said that the following capabilities are not available (see below). Are they possible now? Thank you!

"Some important features are NOT available (yet) in lavaan:

– multilevel sem with random slopes (this is under developement)

– support for variable types other than continuous, binary and ordinal (for example: zero-inflated

count data, nominal data, non-Gaussian continuous data); it is unlikely that this will be part of

lavaan any time soon, for the simple reason that these variable types need numerical quadrature,

and this is too slow to be practical in (pure) R.

– support for discrete latent variables (mixture models, latent classes) although can use the

sampling weights and multiple group features to mimic some mixture models)"

Kind regards,

Michael.

[Yves Rosseel]

On 4/23/25 10:05, Michael Filsecker wrote:
> reading the tutorial for 2023, it is said that the following
> capabilities are not available (see below). Are they possible now?

No.

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Yves Rosseel
Department of Data Analysis, Ghent University