SEM with Mplus: SEM Foundations

Description:

Course website:

mpluswizard.com

 

Course framework and background:

This online course covers the foundations of structural equation modelling using the software Mplus, with topics including:

• The SEM process
• The Mplus files: data, input and output
• Using the Mplus diagrammer
• Model revision
• Model estimation for different types of outcomes (continuous, skewed, nominal, ordered categorical)
• Introduction to latent variables
• Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
• Higher-order confirmatory factor analysis
• Saving factor scores

 

Course format:

Each course has 3 units, released at a rate of one per week, every Wedensday, at 12 noon London time. 
 

The course contains 3 elements:

1.  Video-based lessons: These are pre-recorded and made available to you 24/7, so you can fit them around your schedule. To aid active learning, placeholders appear throughout the videos to invite you to “have a think” before the answer is given.
2. Mplus files: A dropbox folder contains all the Mplus files used in the course, plus a few other external resources. The best use of the files is to annotate them as you go along.
3. Discussion forum: The website  includes a "Discussion forum". You are welcome to post questions there about anything that might be unclear in the course.

 

Expected knowledge and skills:

None. 

This course is a data analysis course, not a statistics course. This means we will learn when to use different statistical techniques based on our research questions, what these techniques do (in an intuitive non-mathematical way), how to apply them using Mplus and how to interpret the results. 

As this course is non-mathematical, it is aimed at complete beginners, so you don’t need to have any prior knowledge of either SEM or Mplus.

 

Teacher and course origins:

I am an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. Click here to see my university profile.  

This online course emulates my in-person ‘SEM with Mplus’ courses, which have been running since 2013 in Cambridge. The courses were first delivered under the umbrella of the University of Cambridge and then as a private venture, hosted by Selwyn College, Cambridge. 

All the online courses are also endorsed and published on the official Mplus software website.

Cost:

£80

Website and registration:

Register for this course

Region:

East of England

Keywords:

Regression Methods, Linear regression, Logistic regression, Probit regression, Categorical data analysis, Latent Variable Models, Factor analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis, Structural equation models, Mplus

Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Regression Methods
Linear regression
Logistic regression
Probit regression
Categorical data analysis
Latent Variable Models
Factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis
Structural equation models
Mplus

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