Resources

Please use the blavaan discussion group for all questions/issues related to blavaan. This can be found at

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blavaan

Other resources are listed below:

• Materials from the 2024 NCME workshop titled Bayesian latent variable modeling in education research. pdf R

• The lavaan resources page is helpful for model specification examples; it is mostly the same specification that is used in blavaan, and the main blavaan commands just add the letter “b” to the start of the main lavaan commands.

• “Getting started with blavaan” materials by Rens van de Schoot and colleagues: html

• A Stan case study on blavaan, by Feng Ji and colleagues: html

• Many recorded presentations are available on the internet:

  • The longest talk with the most details: Presentation to the Oslo UseR Group, including real-time coding examples near the end. (Code from those examples is here.)

  • Details about how the package works: A virtual presentation to the 2022 International Workshop on Psychometric Computing.

  • An episode of the Learning Bayesian Statistics podcast, discussing blavaan and related topics.

  • Basic overview of the package: useR! 2020 virtual presentation (done early in the pandemic, and demonstrating the author’s poor video editing skills.)

• Slides from an hour-long seminar presentation to the Michigan State Methods Group, October, 2021.

• Slides (blavaan and others) from a symposium on the lavaan ecosystem at the 2019 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Santiago, Chile.