feat(psychometric): recover Driver p.16 MANIFESTTRAITVARstd after positive Ψ_τ

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+- `psychometric_core` recovers the Driver, Oud, and Voelkle (2017, Table 2, p. 12 `MANIFESTTRAITVAR`; §7.1, p. 19; p. 16 `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd`; footnote 4; 2017-era ctsem `summary.ctsemFit.R`; JSS PDF re-opened 2026-08-23T22:28Z from https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/download/v077i05/1104) scalar standardised manifest-trait variance. Table 2 names `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` `Ψ_τ` the additional time-invariant variance-covariance on the measurement level and sets it `NULL` when there is no manifest trait. Section 7.1 names manifest traits stable individual differences in indicator levels, distinct from process-level `TRAITVAR` `φ_ξ`. Page 16 prints standardised matrices with the suffix `std` when appropriate. The 2017-era `summary.ctsemFit.R` forms `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd` only when `MANIFESTTRAITVAR != 0`, as `solve(sqrt(diag(MANIFESTTRAITVAR) + ridging)) %&% MANIFESTTRAITVAR` when `verbose = TRUE`. OpenMx `%&%` is the quadratic form `t(A) %*% B %*% A`. Unlike `TRAITVARstd`, that formation adds `diag(c(ridging), n.manifest)`. The default `ridging = FALSE` adds 0, not `0.0001`; that ridge is a numerical hack and is not this exact map. The scalar correlation is `ψ / ψ = 1` after strictly positive `MANIFESTTRAITVAR`. Form strictly positive `ψ` first, then `1 / √ψ`, then `(1 / √ψ) ψ (1 / √ψ)`. Unstandardised `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` is defined for a zero trait; standardised `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` is not. Zero `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` skips forming `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd` in the 2017-era source and fails closed here. Indicator-level trait variance is an event-time structural quantity, so a non-event clock fails closed. `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` does not require stable `a < 0`. Distinct positive `ψ` recover the same 1. `TRAITVARstd` `trait / trait = 1` recovers the same number and remains a distinct named quantity. `MANIFESTVAR` `θ` is measurement error, not this correlation. Still not a Kalman filter, not a matrix `expm`, not ESEM estimation, not DSEM, and not ctsem estimation. Meredith (1993) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:21Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance*). Mislevy (1991, *Psychometrika, 56*, 177–196) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:21Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Randomization-Based Inference about Latent Variables from Complex Samples*).
 - `psychometric_core` recovers the Driver, Oud, and Voelkle (2017, Table 2, p. 12 `TRAITVAR`; §7.1, pp. 18–19; p. 16 `TRAITVARstd`; footnote 4; 2017-era ctsem `summary.ctsemFit.R`; JSS PDF re-opened 2026-08-23T22:21Z from https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/download/v077i05/1104) scalar standardised trait variance. Table 2 names `TRAITVAR` `φ_ξ` the latent trait variance/covariance and sets it `NULL` when there is no trait. Section 7.1 names traits the stable between-subject differences (unit-level unobserved heterogeneity). Page 16 prints standardised matrices with the suffix `std` when appropriate. The 2017-era `summary.ctsemFit.R` forms `TRAITVARstd` only when `TRAITVAR != 0`, as `solve(sqrt(diag(TRAITVAR))) %&% TRAITVAR` when `verbose = TRUE`. OpenMx `%&%` is the quadratic form `t(A) %*% B %*% A`. Unlike `T0VARstd`, that formation uses `diag(diag(TRAITVAR))` and does not add `diag(c(ridging))`. The ridge is a `T0VAR` numerical hack and is not this exact map. The scalar correlation is `trait / trait = 1` after strictly positive `TRAITVAR`. Form strictly positive `trait` first, then `1 / √trait`, then `(1 / √trait) trait (1 / √trait)`. Unstandardised `TRAITVAR` is defined for a zero trait; standardised `TRAITVAR` is not. Zero `TRAITVAR` skips forming `TRAITVARstd` in the 2017-era source and fails closed here. Between-subject variance is an event-time structural quantity, so a non-event clock fails closed. `TRAITVAR` does not require stable `a < 0`. Distinct positive `trait` recover the same 1. `T0VARstd` `p_0 / p_0 = 1` recovers the same number and remains a distinct named quantity. `addedT0TIPREDVAR` `t0_b² v` is extra first-occasion TI variance, not this correlation. Still not a Kalman filter, not a matrix `expm`, not ESEM estimation, not DSEM, and not ctsem estimation. Meredith (1993) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:21Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance*). Mislevy (1991, *Psychometrika, 56*, 177–196) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:21Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Randomization-Based Inference about Latent Variables from Complex Samples*).
 - `psychometric_core` recovers the Driver, Oud, and Voelkle (2017, Table 2, p. 12 `T0VAR`; p. 16 `T0VARstd`; footnote 4; 2017-era ctsem `summary.ctsemFit.R`; JSS PDF re-opened 2026-08-23T22:06Z from https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/download/v077i05/1104) scalar standardised first-occasion latent variance. Table 2 names `T0VAR` the latent process initial variance/covariance. Page 16 prints standardised matrices with the suffix `std` when appropriate. The 2017-era `summary.ctsemFit.R` forms `T0VARstd` as `solve(sqrt(diag(T0VAR))) %&% T0VAR` when `verbose = TRUE`. OpenMx `%&%` is the quadratic form `t(A) %*% B %*% A`. The default `ridging = FALSE` adds 0, not `0.0001`; that ridge is a numerical hack and is not this exact map. The scalar correlation is `p_0 / p_0 = 1` after strictly positive free `T0VAR`. Form strictly positive `p_0` first, then `1 / √p_0`, then `(1 / √p_0) p_0 (1 / √p_0)`. Unstandardised `T0VAR` is defined for a zero first-occasion variance; standardised `T0VAR` is not. Zero `p_0` has no positive SD and fails closed. `T0` is an event-time occasion, so a non-event clock fails closed. Free `T0VAR` does not require stable `a < 0`. Distinct positive `p_0` recover the same 1. `T0TDPREDEFFECTstd` `t0_m · √v / √p_0` depends on `p_0` and is not this correlation. `addedT0TIPREDVAR` `t0_b² v` is extra TI variance, not this correlation. `TRAITVAR` is not the standardisation variance. Still not a Kalman filter, not a matrix `expm`, not ESEM estimation, not DSEM, and not ctsem estimation. Meredith (1993) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:06Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance*). Mislevy (1991, *Psychometrika, 56*, 177–196) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T22:06Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Randomization-Based Inference about Latent Variables from Complex Samples*).
 - `psychometric_core` recovers the Driver, Oud, and Voelkle (2017, Table 3, p. 13 `T0TDPREDEFFECTstd`; Table 2, p. 12; p. 16; footnote 4; Eq. 3, p. 5; 2017-era ctsem `summary.ctsemFit.R`; JSS PDF re-opened 2026-08-23T21:34Z from https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/download/v077i05/1104) scalar standardised first-occasion time-dependent predictor effect. Table 3 names `T0TDPREDEFFECT` the effect of time-dependent predictors on latents at `T0`. Table 2 names `M` `TDPREDEFFECT` and names `T0TDPREDCOV` the first-occasion covariance, not this coefficient. Page 16 prints standardised matrices with the suffix `std` when appropriate. Footnote 4: standardisations use only the relevant variance, not the total. The affecting variance is time-dependent predictor variance `v`, not `TIPREDVAR`. The affected variance is free first-occasion `T0VAR` `p_0`, not within-subject `asymDIFFUSION` `-q / (2 a)`, because Table 3 is the first occasion, not the process dynamics. Form strictly positive `p_0` first, then strictly positive `v`, then `t0_m · √v / √p_0`. Unstandardised `t0_m` is defined for a zero coefficient and for zero predictor variance; standardised `T0TDPREDEFFECT` is not. Zero `p_0` or zero `v` has no positive SD and fails closed. `T0` is an event-time occasion, so a non-event clock fails closed. Free `T0VAR` does not require stable `a < 0`. The continuous standardisation `m · √v / √(-q / (2 a))` uses `asymDIFFUSION` and is not this first-occasion map. `T0TIPREDEFFECTstd` `t0_b · √v / √p_0` is a different named matrix even when `t0_m = t0_b` and the predictor variances match. Section 7.1 warns that omitting trait variance confounds between- and within-person information. `t0_m · √v / √(trait + p_0 + added)` uses the total, not free `T0VAR`, and is not `T0TDPREDEFFECTstd` when `TRAITVAR` is nonzero. `TRAITVAR` is not the standardisation variance. Still not a Kalman filter, not a matrix `expm`, not ESEM estimation, not DSEM, and not ctsem estimation. Meredith (1993) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T21:34Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance*). Mislevy (1991, *Psychometrika, 56*, 177–196) remains unread (Unpaywall 2026-08-23T21:34Z: `is_oa: false`; title *Randomization-Based Inference about Latent Variables from Complex Samples*).

crates/psychometric_core/src/error.rs

@@ -962,6 +962,26 @@ pub enum PsychometricError {
     /// p. 16 `TRAITVARstd`. Extra first-occasion TI variance is not
     /// the correlation form of between-subject `TRAITVAR`.
     InitialTimeIndependentVarianceIsNotStandardisedTraitVariance,
+    /// Driver p. 16 `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd` was requested with a
+    /// non-positive manifest-trait variance. The 2017-era
+    /// correlation form requires strictly positive
+    /// `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` and is not formed when
+    /// `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` is zero.
+    StandardisedManifestTraitVarianceRequiresPositiveManifestTraitVariance,
+    /// Driver Table 2 unstandardised `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` `Ψ_τ` was
+    /// treated as p. 16 `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd`. Unstandardised
+    /// manifest-trait variance is defined for a zero trait;
+    /// standardised `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` is not.
+    UnstandardisedManifestTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance,
+    /// Driver p. 16 `TRAITVARstd` was treated as p. 16
+    /// `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd`. Equal numbers when both correlations
+    /// equal 1 are still distinct named quantities. `TRAITVAR` is
+    /// process-level; `MANIFESTTRAITVAR` is indicator-level.
+    StandardisedTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance,
+    /// Driver Table 2 `MANIFESTVAR` `Θ` was treated as p. 16
+    /// `MANIFESTTRAITVARstd`. Measurement error is not the
+    /// correlation form of indicator-level trait variance.
+    MeasurementErrorIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance,
 }
 
 impl fmt::Display for PsychometricError {
@@ -1673,6 +1693,18 @@ impl fmt::Display for PsychometricError {
             Self::InitialTimeIndependentVarianceIsNotStandardisedTraitVariance => {
                 "initial time-independent predictor variance is not standardised trait variance"
             }
+            Self::StandardisedManifestTraitVarianceRequiresPositiveManifestTraitVariance => {
+                "standardised manifest-trait variance requires strictly positive manifest-trait variance"
+            }
+            Self::UnstandardisedManifestTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance => {
+                "unstandardised manifest-trait variance is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+            }
+            Self::StandardisedTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance => {
+                "standardised trait variance is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+            }
+            Self::MeasurementErrorIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance => {
+                "measurement error is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+            }
         };
         formatter.write_str(message)
     }
@@ -2886,4 +2918,27 @@ mod tests {
             "initial time-independent predictor variance is not standardised trait variance"
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn standardised_manifest_trait_variance_boundary_messages_are_stable() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            PsychometricError::StandardisedManifestTraitVarianceRequiresPositiveManifestTraitVariance
+                .to_string(),
+            "standardised manifest-trait variance requires strictly positive manifest-trait variance"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            PsychometricError::UnstandardisedManifestTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance
+                .to_string(),
+            "unstandardised manifest-trait variance is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            PsychometricError::StandardisedTraitVarianceIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance
+                .to_string(),
+            "standardised trait variance is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            PsychometricError::MeasurementErrorIsNotStandardisedManifestTraitVariance.to_string(),
+            "measurement error is not standardised manifest-trait variance"
+        );
+    }
 }