Dear Erin,
I agree with John that one should be careful about taking SEMs too seriously.
For another good book on sem and path models, look at John Loehlin's book.
Address = {Mahwah, N.J.},
Author = {Loehlin, John C},
Edition = {4th},
Publisher = {L. Erlbaum Associates},
Title = {Latent variable models: an introduction to factor,
path, and structural equation analysis},
Year = {2004}}
For baby sem examples, you might look at the vignette "psych_for_sem"
in the psych package or some of the handouts at
http://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/454.syllabus.pdf
Bill
At 4:11 PM -0400 5/29/09, John Fox wrote:
Dear Erin,
Although it's very old now, I like Duncan's Introduction to Structural
Equation Modeling (Academic Press, 1975); for a more complete treatment,
although it too is pretty old, Bollen, Structural Equations with Latent
Variables (Wiley, 1989). I have notes and other materials from a short
course on SEMs at
<http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/Brazil-2008/index.html>. I feel
compelled to add that one should be very carefully about taking SEMs
seriously.
Regards,
John
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Dear R People:
Could someone recommend a "baby book" on path analysis and SEM, please?
Or if someone has an example that they use in the classroom setting,
that would be very cool too.
Thanks in advance,
Sincerely,
Erin
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University of Houston - Downtown
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