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type: software
license: GPL-2.0-or-later
title: 'lavaan: Latent Variable Analysis'
version: 0.7-2
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan
abstract: Fit a variety of latent variable models, including confirmatory factor analysis,
  structural equation modeling and latent growth curve models.
authors:
- family-names: Rosseel
  given-names: Yves
  email: Yves.Rosseel@UGent.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-4477
- family-names: Jorgensen
  given-names: Terrence D.
  email: TJorgensen314@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6773
- family-names: De Wilde
  given-names: Luc
  email: Luc.DeWilde@UGent.be
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'lavaan: Latent Variable Analysis'
  authors:
  - family-names: Rosseel
    given-names: Yves
    email: Yves.Rosseel@UGent.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-4477
  - family-names: Jorgensen
    given-names: Terrence D.
    email: TJorgensen314@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6773
  - family-names: De Wilde
    given-names: Luc
    email: Luc.DeWilde@UGent.be
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.7-2
  doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan
  url: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lavaan
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/yrosseel/lavaan
commit: 7b78a73ef9d6436405c25c0f4e800e4f0e7566f1
url: https://lavaan.ugent.be
date-released: '2026-07-23'
contact:
- family-names: Rosseel
  given-names: Yves
  email: Yves.Rosseel@UGent.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4129-4477
references:
- type: article
  title: 'lavaan: An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling'
  authors:
  - family-names: Rosseel
    given-names: Yves
  journal: Journal of Statistical Software
  year: '2012'
  volume: '48'
  issue: '2'
  doi: 10.18637/jss.v048.i02
  start: '1'
  end: '36'