NOTE: This post is copied from John C. Flournoy’s post A better cross-lagged panel model, from Hamaker et al. (2015) with minor modifications. Copyright belongs to the orginal author. This walk-through explains, briefly, why and how to run a RI-CLPM in R. Critique of cross-lagged pannel models This post summarizes critiques of the traditional cross-lagged panel model (CLPM), and an improved model by Hamaker, Kuiper, and Grasman Hamaker, Kuiper, & Grasman …