Define attribute relationships

Include information about how your attributes relate to and interact with each other.

Introduction

The third article will focus on identifying and estimating attribute relationships. We will discuss how to identify when a hierarchy might be present in your data and then how to model that hierarchy using different structural model specifications (e.g., hdcm(), bayes_net()).

We’ll then explore how to compare models with a specified hierarchy to a saturated model to evaluate the impact of the hierarchy on model fit.