Hi,
I am using lavaan for a CFA that has a mix of binary, ordinal, and continuous endogenous variables, as well as multiple continuous (age, etc) and one binary (sex) exogenous variable. I would like to use the option conditional.x=TRUE in order to partial out the effects of the exogenous covariates prior to modelling the factors, but I want to verify that the residuals will still be modelled correctly for the ordered variables if they are conditioned first on the exogenous variables. Could you please let me know how they are modelled in this case?
Thanks,
Caitlin