[R] lavaan: how to analyse residuals of a latent variable

[yrosseel]

> My question is: how can I analyse the part of the variation in
> fire.setting that is not included in the latent variable criminality?
> Ideally I would want a new variable that captures just this. Then I
> could model regressions with this variable as the dependent variable.

You can add a regression line to your model syntax with 'fire.setting' 
as the dependent variable:

fire.setting ~ x1 + x2 + x3

were x1-x3 are additional predictors that might influence the variable 
'fire.setting'.

Yves Rosseel
http://lavaan.org