Volume 32, Issue 4, 2025

1. Two-Wave Models for Latent Changes: How Well Can They Recover the Parameters of the Three-Wave Growth Curve Model?
Chenguang Du, Kazuki Hori & Yasuo Miyazaki
Northwest Normal University, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

2. On the Benefit of Robust Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Radislav Vaisman, Mitchell Scovell, Nikolai Kinaev & Javier Fernandez
The University of Queensland, CSIRO

3. Less Heuristic Approximate Local Fit Evaluation in Structural Equation Models
Daniel McNeish
Arizona State University

4. Non-normal GMM with Covariates: A Modified 3-Step Analysis
Ming-Chi Tseng
National University of Tainan, National University of Tainan, Tainan city, Taiwan

5. Parameter Recovery for Misspecified Latent Mediation Models in the Bayesian Framework
Haiyan Liu, Ihnwhi Heo, Sarah Depaoli & Aleksandr Ivanov
University of California

6. fMACS: Generalizing dMACS Effect Size for Measurement Noninvariance with Multiple Groups and Multiple Grouping Variables
Mark H. C. Lai, Yichi Zhang, Meltem Ozcan, Winnie Wing-Yee Tse & Alexander Miles
University of Southern California

7. From Seinfeld to Statistics: On the Dangers of Double Dipping with Bayesian Inference
Timothy R. Konold, Elizabeth A. Sanders & Kelvin Afolabi
University of Virginia, University of Washington

8. Latent Interaction Modeling with Ordinal Items: Evaluating Alternative Analytic Methods and Parceling Strategies
Lu Liu & Qian Zhang
Florida State University

9. Two-Step Multilevel Latent Class Analysis in the Presence of Measurement Non-Equivalence
Johan Lyrvall, Jouni Kuha & Jennifer Oser
University of Catania, London School of Economics and Political Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

10. Methodological Advances with Penalized Structural Equation Models
Tihomir Asparouhov & Bengt Muthén
Mplus

11. modsem: An R Package for Estimating Latent Interactions and Quadratic Effects
Kjell S. Slupphaug, Mehmet Mehmetoglu & Matthias Mittner
NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

12. Teaching the Mechanics of Factor Analysis Using Excel Spreadsheets
Michael Brusco, Douglas Steinley & Ashley L. Watts
Florida State University, University of Missouri, Vanderbilt University