Volume 30, Issue 6, 2023

1. Why Full, Partial, or Approximate Measurement Invariance Are Not a Prerequisite for Meaningful and Valid Group Comparisons
Alexander Robitzsch & Oliver Lüdtke
IPN–Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education

2. Exploratory Factor Analysis Trees: Evaluating Measurement Invariance Between Multiple Covariates
Philipp Sterner & David Goretzko
LMU Munich Utrecht University

3. Variable Selection for Mediators under a Bayesian Mediation Model
Dingjing Shi, Dexin Shi & Amanda J. Fairchild
University of Oklahoma, University of South Carolina

4. Comparison of Two Approaches to Detecting Switched Class Labels in LCA Simulations: Class Assignment vs. Class Similarity
Yi-Kai Chen, Tong-Rong Yang & Li-Jen Weng
National Taiwan University

5. Estimating Latent Baseline-by-Treatment Interactions in Statistical Mediation Analysis
Oscar Gonzalez, Jeno R. Millechek & A. R. Georgeson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Arizona State University

6. An Evaluation of Non-Iterative Estimators in the Structural after Measurement (SAM) Approach to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Sara Dhaene & Yves Rosseel
Ghent University

7. A Model-Based Shrinkage Target to Avoid Non-convergence in Small Sample SEM
Julie De Jonckere & Yves Rosseel
Ghent University

8. Striving for Sparsity: On Exact and Approximate Solutions in Regularized Structural Equation Models
Jannik H. Orzek, Manuel Arnold & Manuel C. Voelkle
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

9. The regDIF R Package: Evaluating Complex Sources of Measurement Bias Using Regularized Differential Item Functioning
William C. M. Belzak
Duolingo

10. semlbci: An R package for Forming Likelihood-Based Confidence Intervals for Parameter Estimates, Correlations, Indirect Effects, and Other Derived Parameters
Shu Fai Cheung & Ivan Jacob Agaloos Pesigan
University of Macau