BSMG is: Bartholomew D, Steele F, Moustaki I, and Galbraith J. (2002) The analysis and interpretation of multivariate data for social scientist, Chapman and Hall.

Kline is: Kline, R.B. (1998). Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling, Guilford.

• Intro to course, Intro to the scope of latent variable models (1 week)

  Notes for Intro to Course. (last updated 9-1-04)

• Measurement Models (7 weeks)

  • Basics concepts of measurement - Questionnaire design for measuring concepts, scaling responses, Validity, Reliability.
    Kline pp. 189-198, and Streiner and Norman (1995 or 2003) Health measurement scales .
    Notes for Basic concepts of measurement. (last updated 9-13-04)
    More Notes on Dimensionality
    Two papers for reading... cortina_alpha.pdf AND peterson_jconsumerresearch_alpha.pdf
    
  • Measuring continuous latent variables
    Notes for Factor Analysis 1 (Last updated 9-23-04) (This is an updated version of the notes I handed out in class on Sept 21)
    Two papers for reading... Hurley et al. (1997) AND Gerbing and Hamilton (1997) This one is assigned for Homework 2
    Step-by-step notes for doing a CFA in AMOS
    Notes for Factor Analysis 2 (Last updated 9-28-04)
    Review of literature on sample size for FA
    Notes for Factor Analysis 3 (Last updated 10-19-04) additional notes for multigroup have been added
    Multiple Group CFA in Amos (Last updated 10-11-04)
    Notes for Factor analysis with categorical observations 1 (Last updated 10-12-04)
    Notes for Factor analysis with categorical observations 2 (Last updated 11-4-04 - Assessing tobacco beliefs paper from HW4 added)
    
    • Factor Analysis. BSMG Chapter 6 and Kline Chapter 7
    • Principal component analysis. BSMG Chapter 5
    • Factor Analysis for binary and ordered categorical variables (Latent Trait models). BSMG Chapter 7 and 8
  • Measuring categorical latent variables
    Notes for Latent Class analysis (Last updated 11-4-04)
    Notes for LCA in medical diagnostics (Rinskopf and Rindskopf, 1986) (Last updated 11-4-04)
    Comparing LCA to Factor analysis for Womens' Mobility data in BSMG (Last updated 11-8-04)
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    • Latent class analysis. BSMG Chapter 9.
    • Latent class growth models. Reference Mplus demo examples

• Path Analysis (7 weeks)

  • An introduction to causality
    Notes about causality (Last updated 10-28-04)
    Judea Pearl's online lectures``The art and science of cause and effect" and ``Reasoning with cause and effect" at http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html
    Types of statistical models: pp 251-257 Skrondal, Rabe-Hesketh (2004)
  • Path Analysis
    Notes for path analysis 1 (Last updated 11-8-04)
    Notes for path analysis 2 (Last updated 11-9-04)
    Notes for path analysis 3 (Last updated 11-20-04)
    
    • Regression review. Kline Chapter 2.
    • Total, direct, and indirect effects. Estimating simultaneous relationships. Mediation and Moderation. Kline Chapter 5.
    A paper on moderator and mediator effects Frazier, Tix, Barron (2004)
    
  • Structural equation modeling.
    Notes for structural equation modeling (Last updated 12-9-04)
    
    • Kline Chapter 8 and from Web: Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS.
  • Latent class regression.
    • Reference Mplus demo examples

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