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Get distances in terms of measurement invariance

The main functions here are getMetrics() and plotDistances(), the others are referred to internally.

getMetrics()
Computes various metrics of measurement invariance distances
plotDistances()
Plot distances using computed metrics of distance
computeCorrelation()
Computes and formats Fisher's transformed correlation matrices
computeCovariance()
Computes and formats covariance matrices
incrementalFit()
Run pairwise models and compute decrease in fit
mgcfaParameters()
Computes MGCFA models for all available groups in the data
pairwiseFit()
Computes MGCFA model for a given pair of groups

run function run Mplus, extract functions extract parts of Mplus output files.

runMImplus()
Runs exact invariance tests in Mplus
runAlignment()
Run alignment procedure using Mplus
runAlignmentSim()
Creates Mplus code for alignment simulations and optionally runs it and returns its summaries back to R.
extractMImplus()
Extract Mplus measurement invariance output
extractAlignment()
Extracts summaries from Mplus alignment output file
extractAlignmentSim()
Extracts summaries of alignment simulations from Mplus output file
extractBayesDiff()
Extracts summaries from Mplus Bayesian approximate invariance output file
extractAlfDiff()
Extracts DIFF alignment results from Mplus output string

Automates common tasks in lavaan-based MI analyses. Also facilitates stratified MI and groupwise CFAs

globalMI()
Conventional test of measurement invariance in three steps
globalMIH()
Test for measurement invariance for Higher-Order Factor models
groupwiseCFA()
Run the same cfa within every group and extract fit indices
summary(<groupwiseCFA>) gsumCFA()
Summarize a list of CFAs produced by lavaan
stratifiedMI()
Run clustered measurement invariance tests

MIE Shiny app

runMIE()
Run Shiny MIE application

Convenience functions

lavTestScore_clean()
Get more comprehensible output from lavTestScore
nInvariant()
Get the number of groups which show invariance with each of the groups
mgcfaDiagnose()
Quick diagnostics for multiple-group lavaan models