Monday, November 22, 2004

LISREL, AMOS and EQS

LISREL, AMOS, and EQS are three popular statistical packages for doing SEM. The first two are distributed by SPSS. LISREL popularized SEM in sociology and the social sciences and is still the package of reference in most articles about structural equation modeling. AMOS (Analysis of MOment Structures) is a more recent package which, because of its user-friendly graphical interface, has become popular as an easier way of specifying structural models. AMOS also has a BASIC programming interface as an alternative. See R. B. Kline (1998). Software programs for structural equation modeling: AMOS, EQS, and LISREL. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (16): 343-364.

2 Comments:

At 4:32 AM, Blogger Shunkai Fu said...

The following sites are excellent in SEM:
1) http://www.smallwaters.com/ (a collection of various information about AMOS and SEM)
2) http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/p/a/pat1004/amos.html (A tutor of AMOS)
3) http://www.gsm.uci.edu/~joelwest/SEM/Software.html (A collecton of SEM related software)
4) http://www.unm.edu/~jstevens/607/links.html (UMN's link collection about SEM)
5) http://acspri.anu.edu.au/courses/summer/sp2000/amos.html(ANUS 's site on using AMOS to do SEM)

 
At 11:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

AMOS is really an excellent tool for constructing SEM due to its friendly GUI.

 

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