History | Staff & Course Pages (2011-2018)
History | Staff & Course Pages (2011-2018)
This is a basic, non-mathematical, application-oriented course of SEM using Mplus. It is primarily targeted to master's/doctoral students of Social Sciences, who have no prior knowledge of SEM. The course is also suitable for master's students of Statistics (Social Statistics, Psychometrics). The number of participants is limited to maximum of 20. (The software licence policy may set further limitations in practice.)
Before the course you should have fairly good practical skills of Factor Analysis and Regression Analysis. The Mplus software will be available in the computer class only (University has no home licences of Mplus).
We will closely follow a book by Barbaba M. Byrne, and learn its most central topics through empirical examples:
If you decide to take this course, it is most recommended to buy the book as soon as possible. (It may be quite difficult to follow the course without the book, although I will share some material and notes based on it). We will use Moodle for sharing the materials, your reports etc.
The course is scheduled on period IV, starting in March and ending in April/May.
It is essential to participate on the lectures and the computer classes. Both will begin on 12th of March. The last lecture will be on 24th of April. No teaching on 2nd and 3rd of April (Easter break).
There is no exam, as this is learning by doing and practicing. Credits will be earned as follows (more details during the course):
Grading will be based on the active participation as well as the quantity and quality of the assignment reports.