[R] SEM/path question

[William Revelle]

Dear Erin,

I agree with John that one should be careful about taking SEMs too seriously.
For another good book on sem and path models, look at John Loehlin's book.


	Address = {Mahwah, N.J.},
	Author = {Loehlin, John C},
	Edition = {4th},
	Publisher = {L. Erlbaum Associates},
	Title = {Latent variable models: an introduction to factor, 
path, and structural equation analysis},
	Year = {2004}}

For baby sem examples, you might look at the vignette "psych_for_sem" 
in the psych package or some of the handouts at
http://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/454.syllabus.pdf

Bill



At 4:11 PM -0400 5/29/09, John Fox wrote:
>Dear Erin,
>
>Although it's very old now, I like Duncan's Introduction to Structural
>Equation Modeling (Academic Press, 1975); for a more complete treatment,
>although it too is pretty old, Bollen, Structural Equations with Latent
>Variables (Wiley, 1989). I have notes and other materials from a short
>course on SEMs at
><http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/Brazil-2008/index.html>. I feel
>compelled to add that one should be very carefully about taking SEMs
>seriously.
>
>Regards,
>  John
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
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>On
>>  Behalf Of Erin Hodgess
>>  Sent: May-29-09 3:28 PM
>>  To: R help
>>  Subject: [R] SEM/path question
>>
>>  Dear R People:
>>
>>  Could someone recommend a "baby book" on path analysis and SEM, please?
>>
>>  Or if someone has an example that they use in the classroom setting,
>>  that would be very cool too.
>>
>>  Thanks in advance,
>>  Sincerely,
>>  Erin
>>
>>
>>  --
>>  Erin Hodgess
>>  Associate Professor
>>  Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>>  University of Houston - Downtown
>>  mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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