Structural Equation Modelling using Mplus

Description:

Outline

Structural Equation Models (SEM) amalgamate regression analysis, path/mediation analysis and factor analysis, allowing for more richly detailed statistical models to be specified and compared to data than by using these techniques individually.

Historically, SEM models were confined to the analysis of continuous observed data, limiting their usefulness in applied social research, where many phenomena are inherently discrete or are measured only with coarse-grained instruments.

Advances in recent years have made available SEM methods for categorical data to applied researchers. This course covers both linear SEM and generalized SEM for non-continuous outcomes, as well as models with non-continuous latent variables, i.e. latent classes.

Objectives

This course aims to train quantitative social scientists to use the Mplus programme in the application of structural equation modelling techniques to continuous and non-continuous observed data.

The course also aims to integrate approaches that assume latent dimensions of variation (eg factor analysis) with approaches that assume unobserved groups or categories (eg latent class analysis).

Cost:

£585 (£420 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions).

Website and registration:

http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/intermediate/structural-equation-modelling/

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Structural Equation Modelling , Mplus , Mediation , Confirmatory Factor Analysis , Item Response Theory , Latent Class Analysis

Related publications and presentations:

Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

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