Bootstrapping Helpers for Structural Equation Modelling

A collection of helper functions for forming bootstrapping confidence intervals and examining bootstrap estimates in structural equation modelling, introduced in Yang and Cheung (2026) The function currently support models fitted by the 'lavaan' package by Rosseel (2012) .


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(Version 0.1.2, updated on 2026-01-25, release history)

semboottools: Bootstrapping Helpers For Structural Equation Modelling

A collection of helper functions for forming bootstrapping confidence intervals and examining bootstrap estimates in structural equation modelling. An introduction to the package can be found in the following manuscript:

  • Yang, W., & Cheung, S. F. (2026). Forming bootstrap confidence intervals and examining bootstrap distributions of standardized coefficients in structural equation modelling: A simplified workflow using the R package semboottools. Behavior Research Methods, 58(2), 38. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02911-z

You can learn more about this package at the Github page of this package.

An illustration of what this package can do can be found in the following Get-Started vignette:

https://yangzhen1999.github.io/semboottools/articles/semboottools.html

Installation

Stable release versions of this package can be installed from CRAN:

install.packages("semboottools")

The latest developmental version of this package can be installed by remotes::install_github:

remotes::install_github("Yangzhen1999/semboottools")

Issues

If you have any suggestions and found any bugs, please feel free to open a GitHub issue. Thanks.

Reference manual

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install.packages("semboottools")

0.1.2.1 by Wendie Yang, 7 months ago


https://Yangzhen1999.github.io/semboottools/


Report a bug at https://github.com/Yangzhen1999/semboottools/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/semboottools


Authors: Wendie Yang [aut, cre] , Shu Fai Cheung [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license


Imports boot, lavaan, psych, lavaan.printer, ggplot2, GGally, rlang, patchwork

Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat


Imported by wsMed.


See at CRAN