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A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO STRUCTURAL
EQUATION MODELING (paper with CD) |
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This best-selling book introduces readers to the building
blocks of structural equation modeling (SEM) so they can conduct their own analysis and
understand and critique related research. Utilizing an application-oriented approach, each
chapter covers basic concepts, principles, and practices, and then utilizes SEM software
to provide meaningful examples. Most chapters follow the SEM basic steps: specification,
identification, estimation, testing, and modification. A checklist is included to guide
the reader's model analysis according to the basic steps a researcher takes. The text
includes numerous examples using the latest versions of Amos (5.0), EQS (6.1), and LISREL
(8.54).
The book's early chapters are critical to understanding how missing data, non-normality,
scale of measurement, non-linearity, outliers, and restriction of range in scores affect
SEM analysis. Chapters 6 through 10 follow the basic SEM steps of modeling using
regression, path, confirmatory factor, and structural equation models. Chapter 12
introduces several approaches to model validation, the final step in obtaining an
acceptable theoretical model. The book concludes with a description of the matrix approach
to SEM by using examples from the previous chapters.
The second edition features:
*a CD with all of the book's Amos, EQS, and LISREL programs and data sets;
*new chapters on importing data issues related to data editing and on how to report
research;
*an updated introduction to matrix notation and programs that illustrate how to compute
these calculations;
*many more computer program examples and chapter exercises; and
*increased coverage of factors that affect correlation, the 4-step approach to SEM and
hypothesis testing, significance, power, and sample size issues.
The new edition's expanded use of applications make this book ideal for advanced students
and researchers in psychology, education, business, health care, political science,
sociology, and biology. A basic understanding of correlation is assumed and an
understanding of the matrices used in SEM models is encouraged.
ORDER CODE: EA0-8058-4018-4B
BOOK with CD
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