By Barbara M. Byrne
Publish 12 months note: First released in 2010
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This bestselling textual content offers a pragmatic advisor to the elemental innovations of structural equation modeling (SEM) and the AMOS application (Versions 17 & 18). the writer reports SEM purposes according to genuine facts taken from her examine. famous for its non-mathematical language, this booklet is written for the beginner SEM consumer.
With every one bankruptcy, the writer "walks" the reader via all steps occupied with checking out the SEM version including:
• an evidence of the problems addressed
• a demonstration of the hypothesized and posthoc types tested
• AMOS enter and output with accompanying interpretation and explanation
• The functionality of the AMOS toolbar icons and their comparable pull-down menus
• the knowledge and released reference upon which the version was once based.
• With over 50% new fabric, highlights of the hot version include:
• All new display pictures that includes model 17 of the AMOS program
• All info documents now to be had at www.psypress.com/sem-with-amos
• software of a multitrait-mulitimethod version, latent development curve version, and second-order version in accordance with express data
• All purposes in accordance with the main favourite graphical interface
• the automatic multi-group method of checking out for equivalence
The publication opens with an creation to the elemental thoughts of SEM and the fundamentals of the AMOS application. the subsequent three sections current functions that concentrate on single-group, multiple-group, and multitrait-mutimethod and latent development curve types. The publication concludes with a dialogue approximately non-normal and lacking (incomplete) info and purposes in a position to addressing those issues.
Intended for researchers, practitioners, and scholars who use SEM and AMOS of their paintings, this ebook is a perfect source for graduate point classes on SEM taught in departments of psychology, schooling, enterprise, and different social and overall healthiness sciences and/or as a complement in classes on utilized statistics, multivariate data, statistics II, intermediate or complex statistics, and/or learn layout. applicable for people with constrained or no prior publicity to SEM, a prerequisite of simple information via regression research is recommended."
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Extra resources for Structural Equation Modeling With AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming (2nd Edition) (Multivariate Applications Series)
Sample text
However, before leaving AMOS Graphics, I wish to show you the contents of four pull-down menus made available to you on your drawing screen. 16 relate in some way to path diagrams. 3. 13 Moving the four factor structures to be aligned vertically. with pull-down menus, rather than with drawing tool buttons, AMOS Graphics provides you with this option. As its name implies, the View menu allows you to peruse various features associated with the variables and/or parameters in the path diagram. , execute a job), manage groups and/or models, and conduct a multiple group analysis and varied other types of analyses.
3), the factor covariances. Given that the latent and observed variables are specified in the model in AMOS Graphics, the program automatically estimates the factor and error variances. In other words, variances associated with these specified variables are freely estimated by default. However, defaults related to parameter covariances are governed by the WYSIWYG rule—what you see is what you get. That is, if a covariance path is not included in the path diagram, then this parameter will not be estimated (by default); if it is included, then its value will be estimated.
The first approach is tied to specification of the measurement model whereby the unmeasured latent variable is mapped onto its related observed indicator variable. 0) one factor-loading parameter in each congeneric5 set of loadings. This constraint holds for both independent and dependent latent variables. 0 the third parameter in each set of observed variables. Recall that AMOS Graphics automatically assigned this value when the Indicator Icon was activated and used to add the first indicator variable and its error term to the model.