PubH 7435 Latent Variable Measurement Modeles and Path Analysis Fall 2007 -
Syllabus
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Intro to course, Intro to the scope of latent variable models (1 week)
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Measurement Models (7 weeks)
- Fundamental ideas of measurement
Notes on Measurement (updated 9-11-07)
Notes about mathematics of dimensionality (no change for 2007)
Computer Lab for using SAS for Cronbach's alpha and intro to Mplus for EFA (updated 9-18-07)
READINGS: - Chapters 2, 4, and pp. 174-205 in Chapter 6 in Pett et al
- "Assessing health status and QOL instruments: Attributes and review criteria" Quality of Life Research, 11: 193-205. 2002. which you can get from our electronic journals through the UM library system
- A good article about Cronbach's alpha is: Streiner D (2003) Starting at the Beginning: An Introduction to Coefficient Alpha and Internal Consistency, Journal of Personality Assessment, 80(1), 99-103.
- Measuring continuous latent variables
Notes about Factor analysis (updated 10-18-07)
Computer Lab for EFA in SAS and CFA in AMOS (updated 10-02-07)
Computer Lab for Multiple Group CFA in AMOS (we will NOT do this lab during classtime)
Using AMOS for CFA with covariates (updated 10-9-07)
READINGS: - Chapter 5, 7, and pp. 167-174 in Chapter 6 in Pett et al
- Chapter 7 and 11.3 in Kline
- Hofmann D, Mathieu J, and Jacobs R (1990) A multiple group CFA evaluation of teacher's work-related perceptions and reactions, Educational and Psychological Measurement, 50, 943-955
- pp 133-144 in Kline about Model fit indices
- Chen FF, West SG, Sousa KH (2006) A Comparison of Bifactor and Second-Order Models of Quality of Life, Multivariate Behavioral Research 41(2), 189-225.
- Reise SP, Morizot J, Hays RD (2007). The role of the bifactor model in resolving dimensionality issues in health outcomes measures, Quality of Life Research, 16 Suppl: 19-31.
- Wirth RJ, Edwards MC (2007) Item Factor Analysis: Current Approaches and Future Directions, Psychological Methods, 12(1), 58-79. (technical details about estimation from pp. 63-70 can be skipped)
- Measuring categorical latent variables
Computer Lab for using Mplus for LCA (updated 10-23-07)
Notes about Latent Class analysis (updated 10-23-07)
Medical Diagnosis- Latent Class example(last updated 2006, no change for 2007)
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Path Analysis (7 weeks)
- An introduction to causality
Notes about causality (last updated 2006, no change for 2007)
- Path Analysis
Notes about path analysis (last updated 2006, no change for 2007),
Notes about bootstrapping
READINGS:
- Chapter 4, 5, and 6 in Kline
- Frazier PA, Tix AP, Barron KE (2004). Testing Moderator and Mediator effects in Counseling Psychology Research, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51(1) 115-134.
- Cole DA, Maxwell, SE (2003). Testing Mediational Models with Longitudinal Data: Questions and Tips in the Use of Structural Equation Modeling, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112(4), 558-577.
- Friedman L, Wall MM. (2005) "Graphical views of suppression and multicollinearity in mul- tiple linear regression", The American Statistician, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 127 - 136.
- Structural equation modeling (including some nonlinear SEM).
Notes about SEM(last updated November 27, 2007)
READINGS:
- Chapter 8 in Kline
- Wall, M.M. and Li, R. (2003) "A Comparison of Multiple Regression to Two Latent Variable Techniques for Estimation and Prediction", Statistics in Medicine, 22, 3671-3685.
- Latent Growth Model
Notes about Latent Growith models(updated November 27, 2007)
READINGS:
- Additional topics
Normality, sample size, and missing data
Extra references for sample size for Factor analysis