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  <dc:title>Latent Variable Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package lavaan version 0.7-2</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Econometrics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Econometrics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MissingData (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MissingData)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MixedModels (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MixedModels)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Psychometrics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Psychometrics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Fit a variety of latent variable models, including confirmatory
   factor analysis, structural equation modeling and latent growth curve models.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R(&gt;= 3.4)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: methods, stats4, stats, utils, graphics, MASS, mnormt,
pbivnorm, numDeriv, quadprog</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Yves Rosseel &lt;Yves.Rosseel@UGent.be&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Yves Rosseel [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-4477&gt;),
  Terrence D. Jorgensen [aut] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6773&gt;),
  Luc De Wilde [aut],
  Daniel Oberski [ctb],
  Jarrett Byrnes [ctb],
  Leonard Vanbrabant [ctb],
  Victoria Savalei [ctb],
  Ed Merkle [ctb],
  Michael Hallquist [ctb],
  Mijke Rhemtulla [ctb],
  Myrsini Katsikatsou [ctb],
  Mariska Barendse [ctb],
  Nicholas Rockwood [ctb],
  Florian Scharf [ctb],
  Han Du [ctb],
  Haziq Jamil [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3298-1010&gt;),
  Franz Classe [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lavaan</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan</dc:identifier>
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