SEMsens

Perform sensitivity analysis in structural equation modeling using meta-heuristic optimization methods (e.g., ant colony optimization and others). The references for the proposed methods are: (1) Leite, W., & Shen, Z., Marcoulides, K., Fish, C., & Harring, J. (2022). doi:10.1080/10705511.2021.1881786 (2) Harring, J. R., McNeish, D. M., & Hancock, G. R. (2017) doi:10.1080/10705511.2018.1506925; (3) Fisk, C., Harring, J., Shen, Z., Leite, W., Suen, K., & Marcoulides, K. (2022). doi:10.1177/00131644211073121; (4) Socha, K., & Dorigo, M. (2008) doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.06.046. We also thank Dr. Krzysztof Socha for sharing his research on ant colony optimization algorithm with continuous domains and associated R code, which provided the base for the development of this package.