semTests: Robust Test Statistics for Structural Equation Models
Supports penalized eigenvalue block-averaging and penalized regression p-values (Foldnes, Moss, Grønneberg, 2024) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2024.2372028>, including their extension to nested model comparison (Foldnes, Grønneberg, Moss, 2026) <doi:10.3758/s13428-026-02968-4>, as well as traditional p-values such as Satorra-Bentler. All p-values can be calculated using unbiased or biased gamma estimates (Du, Bentler, 2022) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2022.2063870> and two choices of chi square statistics. The tests apply to any minimum-discrepancy estimator – ML, GLS, ULS, and categorical WLSMV/DWLS – with experimental support for full-information maximum-likelihood (FIML) fits under missing data.
| Version: | 0.9.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: | lavaan (≥ 0.6-16), methods |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), covr, xml2, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-06-09 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.semTests |
| Author: | Jonas Moss  [aut,
cre],
Njål Foldnes
[ctb],
Steffen Grønneberg
[ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Jonas Moss <jonas.moss.statistics at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://github.com/JonasMoss/semTests |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | semTests citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | semTests results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | semTests.html , semTests.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Robust test statistics with semTests (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | semTests_0.9.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: semTests_0.7.1.zip, r-release: semTests_0.7.1.zip, r-oldrel: semTests_0.7.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): semTests_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): semTests_0.9.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): semTests_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): semTests_0.9.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | semTests archive |
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