Fits bifactor exploratory structural equation models (B-ESEM), together with standard exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), for continuous and ordered-categorical data. Continuous models use 'lavaan' native efa() blocks with robust maximum likelihood (MLR) estimation. Ordered-categorical ESEM defaults to the 'lavaan' weighted least squares mean- and variance-adjusted (WLSMV) estimator; ordered B-ESEM uses a custom diagonally weighted least squares (DWLS) path with polychoric correlations from 'psych', rotation-delta standard errors via 'numDeriv', and a mean- and variance-adjusted chi-square. Target, geomin, and oblimin rotations use 'GPArotation'; the bifactor ESEM approach follows Morin, Arens and Marsh (2016) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2014.961800>. Additional features include multi-group measurement invariance (configural through strict, with partial invariance), ESEM-within-CFA conversion, McDonald's omega reliability suite, and the Mehrvarz and Rouder (2026) <doi:10.31234/osf.io/95enc_v3> alignment ratio check for independent cluster model confirmatory factor analysis (ICM-CFA) misspecification. An optional 'MplusAutomation' interface allows side-by-side comparison with 'Mplus' output.
| Version: | 0.5.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | lavaan (≥ 0.6-21), GPArotation, psych, MASS, numDeriv, stats, utils, graphics, methods, withr |
| Suggests: | MplusAutomation, openxlsx2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-07-11 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.bifactory |
| Author: | Leon T. De Beer [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Leon T. De Beer <leondb at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/leondebeer/bifactory/issues |
| License: | AGPL-3 |
| URL: | https://github.com/leondebeer/bifactory |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | bifactory results |
| Reference manual: | bifactory.html , bifactory.pdf |
| Package source: | bifactory_0.5.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: bifactory_0.5.1.zip, r-release: bifactory_0.5.1.zip, r-oldrel: bifactory_0.5.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): bifactory_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): bifactory_0.5.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): bifactory_0.5.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): bifactory_0.5.1.tgz |
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