SEM with Mplus: SEM Foundations
Date:
14/02/2024 - 06/03/2024
Organised by:
CambridgeSEM
Presenter:
Dr Gabriela Roman
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Dr Gabriela Roman
gdp27@cam.ac.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
Registrations are taken at:
mpluswizard.com
Course framework and background:
This online course covers the foundations of structural equation modelling using the software Mplus, with topics including:
- The SEM process
- The Mplus files: data, input and output
- Using the Mplus diagrammer
- Model revision
- Model estimation for different types of outcomes (continuous, skewed, nominal, ordered categorical)
- Introduction to latent variables
- Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
- Higher-order confirmatory factor analysis
- Saving factor scores
Course format:
Each course has 3 units, released at a rate of one per week, every Wedensday, at 12 noon London time.
The course contains 3 elements:
- Video-based lessons: These are pre-recorded and made available to you 24/7, so you can fit them around your schedule. To aid active learning, placeholders appear throughout the videos to invite you to “have a think” before the answer is given.
- Mplus files: A dropbox folder contains all the Mplus files used in the course, plus a few other external resources. The best use of the files is to annotate them as you go along.
- Discussion forum: The website includes a "Discussion forum". You are welcome to post questions there about anything that might be unclear in the course.
Expected knowledge and skills:
None.
This course is a data analysis course, not a statistics course. This means we will learn when to use different statistical techniques based on our research questions, what these techniques do (in an intuitive non-mathematical way), how to apply them using Mplus and how to interpret the results.
As this course is non-mathematical, it is aimed at complete beginners, so you don’t need to have any prior knowledge of either SEM or Mplus.
Teacher and course origins:
I am an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. Click here to see my university profile.
This online course emulates my in-person ‘SEM with Mplus’ courses (mpluscambridge.com), which have been running since 2013 in Cambridge. The courses were first delivered under the umbrella of the University of Cambridge and then as a private venture, hosted by Selwyn College, Cambridge.
All the online courses are also endorsed and published on the official Mplus software website.
Cost:
£80
Website and registration:
Region:
East of England
Keywords:
Regression Methods, Linear regression, Logistic regression, Probit regression, Ordinal regression, Latent Variable Models, Factor analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis, Structural equation models, Mplus
Related publications and presentations:
Regression Methods
Linear regression
Logistic regression
Probit regression
Ordinal regression
Latent Variable Models
Factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis
Structural equation models
Mplus