Structural Equation Modeling (BBH 596 version)
Fall 2009

Class Meets:    5:30 - 7:30pm Wednesdays (East 305 Health & Human Development Bldg.)

NOTES:  • 

                •  Tips for writing data out of SPSS (and SAS) (for LISREL)
 

      ASCII Text Files.  What they are, and why it is important to have a good ASCII Editor

       http://www.ssicentral.com  Home page for people who distribute LISREL 8.8

              Although I recommend that you purchase LISREL 8.8 for use in this course (or encourage a faculty member to purchase it for your use), it is possible to rent LISREL: (talk to John before you buy)

                    Purchase:  $495    http://www.ssicentral.com/ordering/index.html

                    6 month rental:  $65     12 month rental:  $110 
                    http://www.ssicentral.com/rental/index.html

                    • Free Student version should work for most assignments,    http://www.ssicentral.com/lisrel/student.html
                        but I can't guarantee that it will work for all assignments.

                    • The free student version does NOT work with Assignment 9.

            •  LISREL versions 8.5 & 8.7 will work for this course.  Earlier versions will not.
                LISREL 8.54 is the preferred version for this course (please talk to John about this)

       SEM chapters

            Chapter 0 (title page & table of contents) (available)
            Chapter 1 (Introduction)                            (available)

        Please email me to receive a copy of any or all all other chapters.

        
General Course Materials

        Instructor
        Required and Supplementary Readings

        Schedule of Topics (last modified: 10/21/09)

        Grading, Course Goals and Philosophies, etc. (last modified:  8/26/09)

        Comparing different SEM programs (last modified:  2002 or before)

Sessions (click here for link to session notes) (last modified:  8/26/09)
Assignments (click here for link to assignments) (last modified:  11/4/09)

Program Downloads

            fineprint (best way to print multiple pages per sheet):  http://www.fineprint.com
                    free for printing up to 8 pages at a time, about $50 for fully functioning version
            UltraEdit (excellent text editor -- much, much better than Notepad):  http://www.ultraedit.com
                    free, fully functioning 45 day trial.  about $50 after that

        RHO.EXE  (program for calculating goodness of fit indices) 
        Indirect.exe (program for calculating indirect, or mediated effects)

        Site for Chi-square table with df = 1 to 100     http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/PopEcol/tables/chisq.html

        Joe Schafer's NORM program (click on "Locally Developed Software" and follow the links)

        makespss.exe   Utility for adding item labels to top of ascii dataset for reading into SPSS

AAPT Questionnaire (to be used throughout course)
        PDF version
 

These materials will be used later in the course

Jaccard interaction cites:

                    Jaccard, J.J. & Turrisi, R. (2003).  Interaction effects in multiple regression.  Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications.
                    Jaccard, J.J. & Wan, C. (1996)  LISREL approaches to interaction effects in multiple regression.  Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications.
                    Jaccard, J.J.  (1997)  Interaction effects in logistic regression.  Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications.
                    Jaccard, J.J.  (2001)  Interaction effects in factorial analysis of variance.  Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications.

                •  Notes for Presentation 

                •   Description of Project Proposal

 

•   Appointments for one-on-one sessions

                •  Description of the Final Paper

                •   Schedule for Student Presentations (so far)