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  <dc:title>Variational Bayes Psychometric Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package vbpm version 0.9.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Variational Bayes estimation for a family of psychometric
    measurement models. Two models are provided. Variational Bayes factor
    analysis (vbfa) is a regularized partially confirmatory factor model
    spanning the confirmatory-exploratory continuum via spike-and-slab
    priors on the loadings (Chen, Guo, Zhang, and Pan, 2021
    &lt;doi:10.1037/met0000293&gt;; Chen, 2023 &lt;doi:10.3758/s13428-022-01884-7&gt;;
    Jin and Chen, 2025 &lt;doi:10.1080/10705511.2024.2432612&gt;), with an optional
    dynamic (warm-started) regularization path, an orthogonal bifactor
    parameterization, and optional sparse residual (local dependence)
    estimation through a graphical spike-and-slab prior solved by QUIC
    (Jin, Chen, Yan, and Zhang, 2026 &lt;doi:10.31234/osf.io/dehtv_v2&gt;).
    Regularized MIMIC (vbmimic) extends this to multiple-indicators
    multiple-causes models, placing spike-and-slab priors on both the
    measurement and the structural part (Jin and Chen, 2025
    &lt;doi:10.1080/00273171.2025.2483253&gt;). Companion tools compute SEM-like
    fit statistics, and sweep a factor-count window to report candidate fit,
    criterion, and between-candidate loading-correspondence measurements
    without selecting a count (Chen and Jin, 2026
    &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.07159&gt;). Data generators for either model family
    are also provided.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp, MASS, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: numDeriv, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Jinsong Chen &lt;jinsong.chen@live.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jinsong Chen [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-5469&gt;),
  Yi Jin [aut] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5992&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-05</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vbpm</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.vbpm</dc:identifier>
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