Sorjonen et al.'s (2023) simulation lacked a temporal structure and therefore cannot justify replacing autoregressive effects with covariances in the LCSM¶
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q2 i? The 2023 simulation data were generated without temporal structure, so they do not demonstrate that AR effects distort LCSM parameters; they show only that dynamic parameters are uninterpretable for non-temporal data. → Núñez-Regueiro 2026
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Núñez-Regueiro 2026¶
Núñez-Regueiro, F., Marsh, H. W., Pekrun, R., Lüdtke, O., & Guo, J. (2026). On Model Interpretability and Time-Reversal Testing in Analyses of Reciprocal Effects: Clarifying Modeling Issues in Sorjonen et al.'s (2025a, 2025b) Commentaries. Educational Psychology Review, 38(80). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10179-8
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Design inspection of the Sorjonen et al. (2023) simulation: X1 and X2 were independently generated from the same latent variable, so the data "lacked a temporal structure" and did not model the change processes at stake in LCSM methodology.
"inspection of their simulation design reveals that their simulated data did not reflect change scores (nor an LCSM), because it lacked a temporal structure"
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Sorjonen et al.'s (2023) simulation lacked a temporal structure and therefore cannot justify replacing autoregressive effects with covariances in the LCSM |
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Sorjonen et al.'s (2023) simulation lacked a temporal structure and therefore cannot justify replacing autoregressive effects with covariances in the LCSM |
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