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1 = **Structural equation models, spring 2017** =
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5 [[Kimmo Vehkalahti>>url:http://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/SocStats/Vehkalahti%2C+Kimmo||shape="rect"]], University Lecturer, Adj.Prof., D.Soc.Sci (Statistics)
6 Fellow of the [[Teachers' Academy>>url:http://www.helsinki.fi/teachersacademy||shape="rect"]]
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10 This is an application-oriented basic course of Structural Equation Models (SEM) using [[Mplus>>url:http://www.statmodel.com/||shape="rect"]] and [[R>>url:https://www.r-project.org/||shape="rect"]].
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12 * It is primarily targeted to **Doctoral students of Social Sciences**, who have no prior knowledge of SEM.
13 * The course is also suitable for Master's students of Statistics (e.g., Social Statistics, Psychometrics).
14 * (% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)**The number of participants is limited to maximum of 20.**
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16 === (% style="color: rgb(255,0,0);" %)Text book(%%) ===
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18 (% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %) (%%)We will closely follow [[a text book by //Barbaba M. Byrne//>>url:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/insr.12051_1/pdf||shape="rect"]], and learn its most central topics through empirical examples.
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20 * We begin by going (fast) through the chapters 1 and 2 (first week).
21 * **The primary focus will then be on the chapters 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9** (basically, one week for each).
22 * The chapters 5 and 8 will serve for optional assignments (see below).
23 * (The chapters 10-12 will be excluded.)
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25 (% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %) (%%)**Please get the book ASAP** //(you may well consider the e-book!)//. It may be quite difficult to follow the course without it.(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)
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30 The course is scheduled this time on period III, starting in the mid January and ending in early March.
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32 **It is essential to participate on the lectures and the computer classes. Both will begin immediately.**
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34 **Schedule: course begins on Monday 16 January and lasts for 7 weeks:
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37 * Computer Class on **Mondays 10-12, SSKH IT-sal** (Snellmaninkatu 12, first floor) - (% style="color: rgb(255,0,0);" %)**except** **on Mon 23 January! (CANCELLED)**(%%)**
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39 * Lecture on **Thursdays 16-18, Unioninkatu 35, room 114** (first floor)
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43 (% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %) (%%)There is no exam, as this is learning by doing and practicing. Credits will be earned as follows (more details during the course):
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45 * 6 cu: active participation, weekly assignment reports (based on chapters 3,4,6,7,9)
46 * 8 cu: all of the above plus an additional report (based on chapter 5 or chapter 8 or perhaps own data)
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48 Grading will be based on the active participation as well as the quantity and quality of the assignment reports.
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50 [[Moodle>>url:https://moodle.helsinki.fi/login/index.php||shape="rect"]] will be used for sharing the materials, your reports etc. with all other students of the course.
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58 === (% style="color: rgb(255,0,0);" %)Pre-course material(%%) ===
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60 1. [[Introduction to SEM>>attach:Structural equation models, fall 2014@Kimmo_Vehkalahti_20130515.pdf]] by KV
61 1*. Keynote talk given in the Annual Seminar of FiDPEL:
62 The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Education and Learning (2013)
63 1*. Suitable stuff for **everyone** interested in this course
64 1. [[Multivariate linear relations>>url:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-2xlGiZBQI||shape="rect"]] by prof.** Theodore W. Anderson** (1918-2016) (Stanford University, USA)
65 1*. Keynote talk given in the [[2nd Tampere Conference of Statistics>>url:http://people.uta.fi/%7Esimo.puntanen/Program-1987-conference-Tampere.pdf||shape="rect"]] held in Tampere, Finland (1987)
66 1**. Prof. Anderson is introduced by prof. **George P.H. Styan** (McGill University, Canada)
67 1*. Suitable stuff at least for students of Statistics
68 1**. See also other videos on the same YouTube channel (University of Tampere)
69 1**. See also [[a matrix book dedicated to TWA>>url:http://www.sis.uta.fi/tilasto/matrixtricks/stories/index.html||shape="rect"]]
70 1**. See also [[a rare photograph of four academic generations>>attach:Structural equation models, fall 2014@Isotalo-Puntanen-Styan-Anderson-2006.jpg]]
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72 [[Matrices of SEM>>attach:Matrices-of-SEM.pdf]]
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74 * Learn the basics of Greek letters needed with SEM
75 * Suitable stuff at least for students of Statistics
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77 1. [[Moodle forum example>>attach:Structural equation models, fall 2014@Moodle-forum-example.pdf]]
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80 ** Learn the basics of Greek mythology related to multivariate statistical analysis
81 ** Suitable stuff at least for students of Statistics
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83 (% style="color: rgb(255,0,0);" %)Praise for the course(%%) (16 Oct 2014)
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88 {{{Dear Kimmo,during my ERASMUS semester in Helsinki I attended the first versionof your SEM course which, as I just read on your website, you stilloffer. After attending it and after coming back to Munich and afterfinishing my Master thesis I started to work at the Faculty ofSocial Sciences here and I could even use the expertise gained fromyour course directly in a paper which got published a while ago (itis in German, though). Hence, I need to tell you, that you stillare my personal most-influental memory of my Finland semester.Thanks for that :)}}}
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98 {{{Best regards from Munich,Mario}}}
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104 {{{--Mario Haim, M.A.}}}
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111 {{{Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und MedienforschungLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenOettingenstr. 67 / Raum EU111D-80538 München}}}
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