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A workflow for automating scale scoring in R

This post contains a workflow that vastly speeds up the process of scale scoring and computing psychometrics such as Cronbach's alpha.

Fornell-Larcker Criterion with R using lavaan

Update 2025 The Fornell-Larcker criterion has been criticized in an influential paper on discriminant validity (Rönkko & Cho, 2022). The authors have kindly created a function to …

Beautiful Tables for Exploratory Factor Analysis in R

The psych package for R provides great utilities for exploratory factor analysis (EFA). However, the way psych displays the results does not take advantage of visual cues to make …

How to compute multi-level reliability indices in R and Mplus

Update 2022 Since the time since I wrote this blog post, a package has been developed that caulcates the multi-level reliability coefficient omega within R. See the function …