Fit a variety of Bayesian latent variable models, including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation models, and latent growth curve models. References: Merkle & Rosseel (2018) <doi:10.18637/jss.v085.i04>; Merkle et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i06>.
| Version: | 0.5-9 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0), methods,Rcpp (≥ 0.12.15) |
| Imports: | stats, utils, graphics,lavaan (≥ 0.6-18),coda,mnormt,nonnest2 (≥ 0.5-7),loo (≥ 2.0),rstan (≥ 2.26.0),rstantools (≥ 1.5.0),RcppParallel (≥ 5.0.1),bayesplot,Matrix,future.apply,tmvnsim,igraph |
| LinkingTo: | StanHeaders (≥ 2.26.0),rstan (≥ 2.26.0),BH (≥ 1.69.0),Rcpp (≥ 0.12.15),RcppEigen (≥ 0.3.3.4.0),RcppParallel (≥5.0.1) |
| Suggests: | runjags (≥ 2.0.4-3),modeest (≥ 2.3.3),rjags, cmdstanr,semTools, blavsam,tinytest |
| Published: | 2025-10-10 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.blavaan |
| Author: | Edgar Merkle [aut, cre], Yves Rosseel [aut], Ben Goodrich [aut], Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal [ctb] (R/blav_compare.R, R/ctr_bayes_fit.R, vignettes), Terrence D. Jorgensen [ctb] (R/ctr_bayes_fit.R, R/ctr_ppmc.R, R/blav_predict.R), Huub Hoofs [ctb] (R/ctr_bayes_fit.R), Rens van de Schoot [ctb] (R/ctr_bayes_fit.R), Andrew Johnson [ctb] (Makevars), Matthew Emery [ctb] (loo moment_match) |
| Maintainer: | Edgar Merkle <merklee at missouri.edu> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/ecmerkle/blavaan/issues |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://ecmerkle.github.io/blavaan/,https://github.com/ecmerkle/blavaan |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | GNU make |
| Additional_repositories: | https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev,https://ecmerkle.github.io/drat |
| Citation: | blavaan citation info |
| Materials: | README,NEWS |
| In views: | Bayesian,MixedModels,Psychometrics |
| CRAN checks: | blavaan results |