blavaan is a free, open-source R package for Bayesian latent variable analysis. It relies on JAGS and Stan to estimate models via MCMC. The blavaan functions and syntax are similar to lavaan. The development version of blavaan (containing updates not yet on CRAN) can be installed via the command provided in the documentation. Compilation is required; this may be a problem for users who currently rely on a binary version of blavaan from CRAN. The blavaan package depends on the lavaan package for model specification and for some computations. This means that, if you already know lavaan, then you should already be able to do many things in blavaan. In particular, many blavaan commands add the letter “b” to the start of the lavaan command. It is also sometimes possible to use a lavaan command on a blavaan object, though the results may not always be what you expect.
Features
- The blavaan functions and syntax are similar to lavaan
- blavaan can be installed from CRAN in the usual way
- The blavaan package depends on the lavaan package for model specification and for some computations
- For Bayesian latent variable analysis
- It relies on JAGS and Stan to estimate models via MCMC
- Compilation is required
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