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Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis introduces latent variable models by utilizing path diagrams to explain the relationships in the models. This approach helps less mathematically-inclined readers to grasp the underlying relations among path analysis, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling, and to set up and carry out such analyses. This revised and expanded fifth edition again contains key chapters on path analysis, structural equation models, and exploratory factor analysis. In addition, it contains new material on composite reliability, models with categorical data, the minimum average partial procedure, bi-factor models, and communicating about latent variable models.
The informal writing style and the numerous illustrative examples make the book accessible to readers of varying backgrounds. Notes at the end of each chapter expand the discussion and provide additional technical detail and references. Moreover, most chapters contain an extended example in which the authors work through one of the chapter's examples in detail to aid readers in conducting similar analyses with their own data. The book and accompanying website provide all of the data for the book's examples as well as syntax from latent variable programs so readers can replicate the analyses. The book can be used with any of a variety of computer programs, but special attention is paid to LISREL and R.
An important resource for advanced students and researchers in numerous disciplines in the behavioral sciences, education, business, and health sciences, Latent Variable Models is a practical and readable reference for those seeking to understand or conduct an analysis using latent variables.
List of contents
Contents: Preface. Path Models in Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis. Fitting Path Models. Fitting Path and Structural Models to Data From a Single Group on a Single Occasion. Fitting Models Involving Repeated Measures or Multiple Groups. Exploratory Factor Analysis--Basics. Exploratory Factor Analysis--Elaborations. Issues in the Application of Latent Variable Analysis. Appendices.
About the author
John C. Loehlin is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Computer Science at the
University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University
of California (Berkeley).
A. Alexander Beaujean is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at
Baylor University. He received PhDs in Educational Psychology and School
Psychology from the University of Missouri.
Summary
This book introduces multiple-latent variable models by utilizing path diagrams to explain the underlying relationships in the models.
