SEM with Mplus: Multilevel data analysis

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:

• Instroduction to multilevel modelling
• Decisions around when to use multilevel modelling
• Accounting for clustered data in single-level modellnig
• Twolevel modelling with predictors at a single level
• Twolevel modelling with predictors at both levels
• Random slopes
• Cross-level interactions
• Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis
• Multilevel measurement invariance
• Multilevel structural equation modelling
• Assessing level-specific model fit.

 

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.

 

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, so should be suitable for anyone. However, if you are entirely new to SEM and Mplus, I highly recommend you also take the Foundation course (listed on the course website, at mpluswizard.com) .

 

Teacher and course background:

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 (mpluscambridge.com), 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:

£190 - £270

Website and registration:

Register for this course

Region:

East of England

Keywords:

Philosophy of social science, Mplus, Multilevel Modelling , Random effects, Latent Variable Models, Confirmatory factor analysis, Structural equation models, Mplus, Cross-level interactions, Multilevel structural equation modelling, Multilevel measurement invariance.

Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Philosophy of social science
Mplus

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