OpenSEM Forums

General discussion of SEM models, philosophy, and history.

Discussions of multigroup, pedigree, and twin models.

Estimating models with binary, ordinal, and categorical thresholds

Factor analysis models and issues to do with measurement models

Discussions dynamic factor analysis and continuous and discrete time dynamical systems models.

Latent Growth Curve and other longitudinal SEM problems

Latent classes, mixture distributions, and factor mixture models.

SEM approaches to fitting hierarchically nested, random coefficients, mixed effects and cross-classified models

Using any of the many SEM software packages. Discussions of speedups and tweaks to help models converge.

Discussions of methods for determining goodness of fit

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