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Latent Interaction (and Moderation) Analysis in Structural Equation Models (SEM)

v1.0.17 · Feb 24, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Estimation of interaction (i.e., moderation) effects between latent variables in structural equation models (SEM). The supported methods are: The constrained approach (Algina & Moulder, 2001). The unconstrained approach (Marsh et al., 2004). The residual centering approach (Little et al., 2006). The double centering approach (Lin et al., 2010). The latent moderated structural equations (LMS) approach (Klein & Moosbrugger, 2000). The quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) approach (Klein & Muthén, 2007) The constrained- unconstrained, residual- and double centering- approaches are estimated via 'lavaan' (Rosseel, 2012), whilst the LMS- and QML- approaches are estimated via 'modsem' it self. Alternatively model can be estimated via 'Mplus' (Muthén & Muthén, 1998-2017). References: Algina, J., & Moulder, B. C. (2001). <doi:10.1207/S15328007SEM0801_3>. "A note on estimating the Jöreskog-Yang model for latent variable interaction using 'LISREL' 8.3." Klein, A., & Moosbrugger, H. (2000). <doi:10.1007/BF02296338>. "Maximum likelihood estimation of latent interaction effects with the LMS method." Klein, A. G., & Muthén, B. O. (2007). <doi:10.1080/00273170701710205>. "Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation of structural equation models with multiple interaction and quadratic effects." Lin, G. C., Wen, Z., Marsh, H. W., & Lin, H. S. (2010). <doi:10.1080/10705511.2010.488999>. "Structural equation models of latent interactions: Clarification of orthogonalizing and double-mean-centering strategies." Little, T. D., Bovaird, J. A., & Widaman, K. F. (2006). <doi:10.1207/s15328007sem1304_1>. "On the merits of orthogonalizing powered and product terms: Implications for modeling interactions among latent variables." Marsh, H. W., Wen, Z., & Hau, K. T. (2004). <doi:10.1037/1082-989X.9.3.275>. "Structural equation models of latent interactions: evaluation of alternative estimation strategies and indicator construction." Muthén, L.K. and Muthén, B.O. (1998-2017). "'Mplus' User’s Guide. Eighth Edition." <https://www.statmodel.com/>. Rosseel Y (2012). <doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02>. "'lavaan': An R Package for Structural Equation Modeling."

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp purrr stringr lavaan rlang MplusAutomation nlme dplyr mvnfast fastGHQuad mvtnorm ggplot2 plotly Deriv MASS +3 more dependencies modsem

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new 1.0.17 Mar 9, 2026