semTests: Robust Test Statistics for Structural Equation Models

Computes robust p-values for overall fit and nested comparisons of structural equation models fitted with 'lavaan'. Implements penalized eigenvalue block averaging and penalized regression (Foldnes, Moss, Grønneberg, 2025) <doi:10.1080/10705511.2024.2372028>, including their extension to nested models (Foldnes, Grønneberg, Moss, 2026) <doi:10.3758/s13428-026-02968-4>, alongside familiar corrections such as Satorra-Bentler. Supported settings include complete-data ML, GLS, and ULS, categorical DWLS and ULS, and full-information maximum likelihood with one or several groups. Score and criterion-difference tests of parameter restrictions are also available, including restrictions in misspecified models.

Version:	2.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	lavaan (≥ 0.7-3), methods, pbivnorm
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-10-29
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.semTests
Author:	Jonas Moss [aut, cre], Njål Foldnes [ctb], Steffen Grønneberg [ctb]
Maintainer:	Jonas Moss <jonas.moss.statistics at gmail.com>
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://github.com/JonasMoss/semTests
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	semTests citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	semTests results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	semTests.html , semTests.pdf
Vignettes:	Ordinal indicators and measurement invariance (source, R code) Missing data with FIML (source, R code) Score and criterion tests (source, R code) Getting started with semTests (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	semTests_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: semTests_1.0.0.zip, r-release: semTests_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: semTests_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): semTests_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): semTests_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): semTests_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): semTests_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources:	semTests archive

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