History | Staff & Course Pages (2011-2018)
History | Staff & Course Pages (2011-2018)
Kimmo Vehkalahti, University Lecturer, Adj.Prof., D.Soc.Sci (Statistics)
Fellow of the Teachers' Academy
This is an application-oriented basic course of Structural Equation Models (SEM) using Mplus and R.
We will closely follow a text book by Barbaba M. Byrne, and learn its most central topics through empirical examples.
Please get the book ASAP (you may well consider the e-book!). It may be quite difficult to follow the course without it.
The course is scheduled this time on period III, starting in the mid January and ending in early March.
It is essential to participate on the lectures and the computer classes. Both will begin immediately.
Schedule: course begins on Monday 16 January and lasts for 7 weeks:
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.
Moodle will be used for sharing the materials, your reports etc. with all other students of the course.
Praise for the course (16 Oct 2014)
Dear Kimmo,
during my ERASMUS semester in Helsinki I attended the first version
of your SEM course which, as I just read on your website, you still
offer. After attending it and after coming back to Munich and after
finishing my Master thesis I started to work at the Faculty of
Social Sciences here and I could even use the expertise gained from
your course directly in a paper which got published a while ago (it
is in German, though). Hence, I need to tell you, that you still
are my personal most-influental memory of my Finland semester.
Thanks for that :)
[...]
Best regards from Munich,
Mario
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Mario Haim, M.A.
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oettingenstr. 67 / Raum EU111
D-80538 München
(Quoted with permission.)