Overview
- Presents structural equation models (SEM) development in a historical context for better understanding of commonly used methods
- Answers questions on sample size for hypothesis tests, and comparative performance of various methods
- Surveys new techniques for path analysis, guidelines for data preparation, and sample size calculation
Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 22)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Structural Equation Models (SEM)
- Partial Least Squares (PLS)
- LISREL-AMOS
- Systems of Regression Equations
- techniques for path analysis
- treatment of Likert scale data
- Likert scale categorical data
- latent variable constructs
- latent variables
- likert scales
- likert scale data
- path analysis
- structural equation models computer fitting
- data preparation for structural equation models
About this book
This new edition surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies. The book has been updated throughout to reflect the arrival of new software packages, which have made analysis much easier than in the past. Applications in a broad range of disciplines are discussed, particularly in the social sciences where many key concepts are not directly observable. This book presents SEM’s development in its proper historical context–essential to understanding the application, strengths and weaknesses of each particular method. This book also surveys the emerging path and network approaches that complement and enhance SEM, and that are growing in importance. SEM’s ability to accommodate unobservable theory constructs through latent variables is of significant importance to social scientists. Latent variable theory and application are comprehensively explained and methods are presented for extending their power, including guidelines for data preparation, sample size calculation and the special treatment of Likert scale data. Tables of software, methodologies and fit statistics provide a concise reference for any research program, helping assure that its conclusions are defensible and publishable.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structural Equation Models
Book Subtitle: From Paths to Networks
Authors: J. Christopher Westland
Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12508-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12507-3Published: 17 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12510-3Published: 25 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12508-0Published: 05 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-4182
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 149
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Innovation/Technology Management, Psychometrics, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Health Informatics