Datasets

We will use three datasets in this chapter, which are discussed in the following sections to give you an idea of their content.

Political democracy

This is a dataset included in the lavaan package. This is a classic dataset for use in SEM. It contains variables concerned with political freedom movements and economic development in 1960 and 1965, as follows:

• x1: This variable is for per capita gross national product in 1960

• x2: This variable is for per per capita energy consumption in 1960

• x3: This variable is for proportion of the labor force in the industry in 1960

• y1: This variable is for ratings of the freedom of the press in 1960

• y2: This variable is for freedom of political opposition in 1960

• y3: This variable is for fairness of elections in 1960

• y4: This variable is for legislature effectiveness in 1960

• y5: This variable is for freedom of political opposition in 1965

• y6: This variable is for freedom of political opposition in 1965

• y7: This variable is for fairness of elections in 1965...