 A regularized estimation formulation is proposed for exploratory SEM , where the objective function is added with an l1-type penalty of the path coefficient matrix.
<clarity>  A regularized estimation formulation is proposed for exploratory SEM , where the objective function is added with an l1-type penalty of the path coefficient matrix.
 A regularized estimation formulation is proposed for exploratory SEM using an l1-type penalty of the path coefficient matrix.