The book was written when the author
taught structural equation modeling to Ph.D. Candidates in University
of California at Irvine from 2003 to 2005. The RM4Es
and ResearchMap frameworks are used in this book,
and the book was revised in 2007-2009.
The book can be purchased directly at
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Table of Content
Part 1, Introduction to Structural Equation
Modeling and RM4Es Flows
SUMMARY: This part introduces the
RM4Es framework for understanding model building processes, and starts
our discussion with examples on simple regression as structural equation
modeling can be considered as an extension of regression modeling.
Part 2, Path Analysis
SUMMARY: In this part, we give a
general overview of path analysis, and a RM4Es flow of building a path
analysis model.
Part 3, Measurement Model and Hybrid Model
In this part, we give a general
overview of measurement model and hybrid model, and a RM4Es flow of
building these models.
Part 4, Equation Specification
Model specification in SEM is rather
complicated that we dedicate this whole part to it.
Part 5, Estimation Methods for Structural Equation
Models
In this part, we review various
estimation options for SEM.
Part 6, Computing Methods for Structural Equation
Models
We have selected LISREL and R as our
computing software that we will review them in this part. At the same
time, we will discuss how RM4Es software system can be used to manage
research flows of building SEM models.
Part 7, Model Explanation and Evaluation
In this part, we provide a detailed
discussion on how to evaluate SEM models and on how to interpret the SEM
results.
Part 8, More on Computing and Model Evaluation
This part covers some advanced
issues on SEM computing and SEM model evaluation
Part 9, More on Explanation (Equivalent Model,
Nested Model and Causal Structures)
This part covers some advanced
issues on SEM results explanation.
Part
10: RM4Es Summary and RM4Es software introduction
Here in part 10, we summarize our
modeling process and provide a RM4EsTM
solution together with an introduction of the RM4EsTM
software.
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