Tutorials

Tutorials

This page will collect tutorials on specific topics. If you have a tutorial you would like to share, please contact us, and we will add a link here.

  • A Tutorial for Understanding SEM using R: Where Do All the Numbers Come From? Publised paper by Yves Rosseel and Marc Vidal in the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (2025): Open Access.

  • The Pairwise Likelihood Method for Structural Equation Modelling with ordinal variables and data with missing values using the R package lavaan: PDF file, Dataset, Tutorial_Rcommands.R. Prepared by Myrsini Katsikatsou (formerly from the LSE). Read also this notes: Readme.txt.

  • How to evaluate theory-based hypotheses in a lavaan model using the GORICA: PDF file, HTML file. Prepared by Rebecca Kuiper from Utrecht University.