Notes PML Tutorial -- YR 19 April 2020 1) as explained in the tutorial, when thresholds are 'structured' (eg group.equal includes "thresholds"), then ctr_pml_plrt2() should be used instead of ctr_pml_plrt() to get the model test statistic. in < 0.6-6, this was NOT done automatically (as reflected in the tuturial), but from 0.6-6 onwards, this is done automatically 2) from 0.6-6, the estimates of the polychoric estimates differ somewhat for some pairs (new implementation!); this affects mostly the PML robust test statistic 3) on some machines, in particular for the multigroup example, you may get the warning: lavaan WARNING: Hessian is not fully symmetric. Max diff = 8.45073372965089 (Max diag Hessian = 66496.3429486499) (possibly with different numbers). This is nothing to worry about. It is a new check (for YR) to evaluate the accuracy of Hessian matrices; eventually, this warning will disappear again.