Structural Equation Modeling.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online or face-to-face). 3 credits. Prerequisites: two graduate-level statistics courses or permission of instructor. This course provides an overview of the principals and applications of the general statistical framework structural equation modeling. The course provides an introduction to the concepts, methods, problems and applications of SEM. Topics covered include the modeling of observed variables, consequences of measurement error, modeling of latent variables and longitudinal structural equation models.