Labs

These labs are the hands-on part of the course. Each lab is designed to be runnable end-to-end and includes exercises.

Tip

Tip
If you get stuck, start from the top of the lab and run chunks in order.

A CFA dataset

Try lab 4 using different data

A Dataset To Rule Them All

All the labs listed below are topic-specific and include solutions. Instead, you can practice everything from scratch using the oh God I collected so many data and I don’t know what to do now dataset. You can download the data from /data/processed folder which also include a codebook data.

Day 1

  • Lab 01 — lavaan basics
    Open lab

  • Lab 02 — path analysis & mediation
    Open lab

Day 2

  • Lab 03 — fit diagnostics (residuals, MI/EPC)
    Open lab

  • Lab 04 — CFA + reliability
    Open lab

Day 3

  • Lab 05 — SEM - structural relationships
    Open lab

  • Lab 06 — missing data (FIML/MI) + robustness
    Open lab

Day 4

  • Lab 07 — MG-CFA invariance
    Open lab

  • Lab 08 — ordinal SEM + ordinal invariance
    Open lab

Day 5

  • Lab 09 — longitudinal SEM (growth model)
    Open lab

  • Lab 10 — clustered data (robust SE) + two-level CFA
    Open lab

Optional extra practice

If you want more practice beyond the core materials, check the Extras page.