Tests for block-diagonal structure in symmetric matrices (e.g. correlation matrices) under the null hypothesis of exchangeable off-diagonal elements. As described in Segal et al. (2019), these tests can be useful for construct validation either by themselves or as a complement to confirmatory factor analysis. Monte Carlo methods are used to approximate the permutation p-value with Hubert's Gamma (Hubert, 1976) and a t-statistic. This package also implements the chi-squared statistic described by Steiger (1980). Please see Segal, et al. (2019) <doi:10.1007/s11336-018-9647-4> for more information.

Computation and visualization of matrix correlation coefficients. The main method is the Similarity of Matrices Index, while various related measures like r1, r2, r3, r4, Yanai's GCD, RV, RV2, adjusted RV, Rozeboom's linear correlation and Coxhead's coefficient are included for comparison and flexibility.