INLAvaan 0.2.2

• Under the hood, use lavaan’s MVN log-likelihood function to compute single- and multi-level log-likelihoods.
• Added support for multi-level SEM models.
• Added support for binary data using PML estimator from lavaan. NOTE: Ordinal is possible in theory, but the package still lacks proper prior support for the thresholds.
• Added support for missing = "ML" to handle FIML for missing data.
• Improved axis scanning, skewness correction, and VB mean correction routine.

INLAvaan 0.2.1

• Support for lavaan 0.6-21.
• Implemented variational Bayes mean correction for posterior marginals.
• Defined parameters are now available, e.g. mediation analysis.
• Prepare for CRAN release.

INLAvaan 0.2

• INLAvaan has been rewritten from the ground up specifically for SEM models. The new version does not call R-INLA directly, but instead uses the core approximation ideas to fit SEM models more efficiently.
• Features are restricted to normal likelihoods only and continuous observations for now.
• Support for most models that lavaan/blavaan can fit, including CFA, SEM, and growth curve models.
• Support for multigroup analysis.
• Added PPP and DIC model fit indices.
• Added prior specification for all model parameters.
• Added support for fixed values and parameter constraints.
• Initial CRAN submission.

INLAvaan 0.1

• Used rgeneric functionality of R-INLA to implement a basic SEM framework.