In the social sciences, it is often useful to introduce latent variables and usestructural equation modeling to quantify relations among observable and latentvariables. Data gathered through surveys is frequently ordinal in nature, asLikert-scale type questions are used in most questionnaires....

In the social sciences, it is often useful to introduce latent variables and use structural equation modeling to quantify relations among observable and latent variables. This paper presents a manual, describing how to estimate structural equation models in a Bayesian approach with R. Parameter...