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(More customer reviews)For a book that presumes to describe the use of a particular software (AMOS) for conducting Structural Equation Modeling, this book misses the mark by quite a bit. Many of the terms and windows figures the author uses do not correspond well to those actually used in AMOS. Also, the description of what the author is doing is often not as clear as one would hope, and I found myself often at a lost as to what the intent or purpose was for performing each step and why one may want to perform each procedure discussed. Lastly, this book spends the vast majority of its page space discussing factor analyses (confirmatory factor analysis) and the use of modification indices. While this may be of some importance to some researchers, the more theorectically and empirically meaningful discussion of assessing and comparing various causal models of association are tersely covered and and the rationale behind such analytical tools poorly explained. Also, the author seems to advocate for some practices in SEM that many other experts may not condone.
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This bestselling text provides a practical guide to the basic concepts of structural equation modeling (SEM) and the AMOS program (Versions 17 & 18). The author reviews SEM applications based on actual data taken from her research. Noted for its non-mathematical language, this book is written for the novice SEM user. With each chapter, the author "walks" the reader through all steps involved in testing the SEM model including: an explanation of the issues addressed an illustration of the hypothesized and posthoc models tested AMOS input and output with accompanying interpretation and explanationThe function of the AMOS toolbar icons and their related pull-down menusThe data and published reference upon which the model was based.With over 50% new material, highlights of the new edition include:All new screen shots featuring Version 17 of the AMOS program All data files now available at www.psypress.com/sem-with-amos Application of a multitrait-mulitimethod model, latent growth curve model, and second-order model based on categorical dataAll applications based on the most commonly used graphical interfaceThe automated multi-group approach to testing for equivalenceThe book opens with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of SEM and the basics of the AMOS program. The next 3 sections present applications that focus on single-group, multiple-group, and multitrait-mutimethod and latent growth curve models. The book concludes with a discussion about non-normal and missing (incomplete) data and two applications capable of addressing these issues. Intended for researchers, practitioners, and students who use SEM and AMOS in their work, this book is an ideal resource for graduate level courses on SEM taught in departments of psychology, education, business, and other social and health sciences and/or as a supplement in courses on applied statistics, multivariate statistics, statistics II, intermediate or advanced statistics, and/or research design. Appropriate for those with limited or no previous exposure to SEM, a prerequisite of basic statistics through regression analysis is recommended.
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