Course: Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Models
Readings
Textbooks
Required:
Highly recommended:
Maruyama, G. Basics of Structural Equation Modeling, SAGE, 1997.
Bollen, KA. Structural Equations with Latent Variables, New York: Wiley and Sons, 1989.
Topic | Readings |
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Introduction: Structural regression |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 1 "Path Models in Factor, Path, and Structural Analysis" Additional Reading Bollen, Chapter 1, "Introduction" and Chapter 2, "Model Notation, Covariances, and Path Analysis," pp. 10-31 Bollen, Chapter 5 "The consequences of measurement error," pp. 151-168 |
Regression analysis for items | Optional readings Diggle PJ, Heagerty P, Liang K-Y, Zeger SL. "Generalized Linear Models for Longitudinal Data" in Analysis of Longitudinal Data, 2nd edition, London: Oxford, 2002 (pp 54-70). |
Introduction to path analysis |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 2 "Fitting path models" Additional Reading Bollen, Chapter 2 "Model Notation, Covariances, and Path Analysis," pp. 32-39. |
Introduction to structural equations with latent variables |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 3 "Fitting path and structural models to data from a single group on a single occasion," pp. 87-95. Additional Reading Bollen, Chapter 7, "Confirmatory factor analysis," pp. 226-238. |
Inference using structural equations with latent variables | Bollen, Chapter 7, "Confirmatory factor analysis," pp. 238-296. |
Examples of path analysis |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 3, "Fitting path and structural models to data from a single group on a single occasion," pp. 95-115 Additional Reading Maruyama, Chapter 6, "Recursive and Longitudinal Models: Where Causality Goes in More Than One Direction and Where Data Are Collected Over Time," pg. 99-108 Optional Reading |
Commonly applied structural models with latent variables |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 3, "Fitting path and structural models to data from a single group on a single occasion" pp. 98-102. Loehlin, Chapter 4, "Fitting models involving repeated measures or multiple groups," pp. 129-148. Additional Reading Bollen, Chapter 8, "The general model, part I: latent variable and measurement models combined," pp. 355-369. |
Advanced structural equations models I |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 4, "Fitting models involving repeated measures or multiple groups," pp. 120-129. Additional Reading Maruyama, Chapter 6, "Recursive and Longitudinal Models: Where Causality Goes in More Than One Direction and Where Data Are Collected Over Time�, pp. 108-122. Optional readings Muthen BO, "Analysis of Longitudinal Data using Latent Variable Models with Varying Parameters," in Best Methods for Analyzing Change |
Advanced structural equations models II |
Suggested readings Muthen BO. "Means and covariance structure analysis of hierarchical data," UCLA Statistics series, no 62: Los Angeles, 1990. |
Models for dichotomous outcomes |
Reading Bollen, Chapter 9, "The general model, part II: extensions," pp. 433-447. Additional readings Muthen BO, "Goodness of fit with categorical and nonnormal variables," in: Bollen KA, Long JS, eds., Testing structural equation models (pp. 205-234). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. |
Latent class regression I |
Additional readings Bandeen-Roche K, Huang G-H, Munoz B, Rubin GS, "On Determining Risk Factor Associations with Questionnaire Outcomes: A Methods Case Study," American Journal of Epidemiology, 1999;150:1165-78. |
Latent class regression II | No reading |
Concluding topics |
Reading Loehlin, Chapter 7, "Issues in the application of latent variable," pp. 98-102. Additional readings Maruyama, Chapter 1, "What Does It Mean to Model Hypothesized Causal Processes With Nonexperimental Data?" Bollen, Chapter 3, "Causality and causal models," pp. 40-79. |