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title: 'ackwards: Bass-Ackwards Hierarchical Structural Analysis'
version: 0.1.1
abstract: Implements Goldberg's (2006) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.01.001>
  bass-ackwards method and modern descendants for hierarchical structural analysis.
  Extracts solutions from 1 to k factors using principal component analysis (PCA),
  exploratory factor analysis (EFA), or exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM)
  engines, then characterizes the hierarchy via between-level factor-score correlations
  computed via exact linear algebra (Waller, 2007, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.08.005>)
  or materialized scores. Includes the Forbes (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000546>
  extension for redundancy pruning and all-levels cross-correlations.
authors:
- family-names: Girard
  given-names: Jeffrey M.
  email: me@jmgirard.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-3746
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'ackwards: Bass-Ackwards Hierarchical Structural Analysis'
  authors:
  - family-names: Girard
    given-names: Jeffrey M.
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-3746
    email: me@jmgirard.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.1.1
  url: https://github.com/jmgirard/ackwards
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/jmgirard/ackwards
commit: 65b3be1a257580c9e51ea86712882fb0e117f436
url: https://jmgirard.github.io/ackwards/
date-released: '2026-07-24'
contact:
- family-names: Girard
  given-names: Jeffrey M.
  email: me@jmgirard.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-3746