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  1. How in the hell are we still living in a universe where there is no *complete* replacement for #Mplus?

    By now there should be some #rlang code, or even #Python, that takes Mplus scripts as input and just does them. And yet, no.

    Everybody I know who uses Mplus says -- with complete seriousness (!!) -- that there are R packages that implement some of its functions, but they still need Mplus to do everything.

    What am I missing? Why?

    @rstats #wtf #science #stats #sem #structuralequationmodeling

  2. How in the hell are we still living in a universe where there is no *complete* replacement for #Mplus?

    By now there should be some #rlang code, or even #Python, that takes Mplus scripts as input and just does them. And yet, no.

    Everybody I know who uses Mplus says -- with complete seriousness (!!) -- that there are R packages that implement some of its functions, but they still need Mplus to do everything.

    What am I missing? Why?

    @rstats #wtf #science #stats #sem #structuralequationmodeling

  3. How in the hell are we still living in a universe where there is no *complete* replacement for #Mplus?

    By now there should be some #rlang code, or even #Python, that takes Mplus scripts as input and just does them. And yet, no.

    Everybody I know who uses Mplus says -- with complete seriousness (!!) -- that there are R packages that implement some of its functions, but they still need Mplus to do everything.

    What am I missing? Why?

    @rstats #wtf #science #stats #sem #structuralequationmodeling

  4. How in the hell are we still living in a universe where there is no *complete* replacement for #Mplus?

    By now there should be some #rlang code, or even #Python, that takes Mplus scripts as input and just does them. And yet, no.

    Everybody I know who uses Mplus says -- with complete seriousness (!!) -- that there are R packages that implement some of its functions, but they still need Mplus to do everything.

    What am I missing? Why?

    @rstats #wtf #science #stats #sem #structuralequationmodeling

  5. How in the hell are we still living in a universe where there is no *complete* replacement for #Mplus?

    By now there should be some #rlang code, or even #Python, that takes Mplus scripts as input and just does them. And yet, no.

    Everybody I know who uses Mplus says -- with complete seriousness (!!) -- that there are R packages that implement some of its functions, but they still need Mplus to do everything.

    What am I missing? Why?

    @rstats #wtf #science #stats #sem #structuralequationmodeling