On Friday April 25th, Paul Barrett advised the SEMNET Listerv of a recent publication of Chen et al. 2008 called “An empirical evaluation of the use of fixed cutoff points in RMSEA test statistic in structural equation models” published in “Sociological Methods and Research“.
In July and August 2008, the Department for Professional Training offers two 4-day workshops in Structural Equation Modeling using AMOS 7.0. The workshops will be held in German language.
Instructors:
Registration: Georg Schumacher (Department for Professional Training, FU Berlin)
Dates: 19-23 and 26-29 November 2007
Time: 09.15 – 15.00
Room: PC-undervisningsrom V102 på Psykologisk institutt
Course leader: Professor Knut A. Hagtvet , Department of Psychology
Credig points : The students will earn 2,5 credit points for participating in the class included required exercises. The student will earn additional 2,5 credit points for submitting an acceptable paper with reference to the course topics.
Course description : The course will include lectures, practical exercises in spesifying, estimating and testing models by means of the program LISREL 8.70. The course introduces methodologies in analyzing latent variables. The following topics will be included:
It is suggested that the participants has completed the course Measuring and analyzing constructs in psychological research which is offered in May. However this suggestion is not a necessary prerequisite for attending the SEM class.
Application deadline : 15 October
Application: Please fill out an application form
Norwegian School of Management, BI Oslo in Cooperation with Scientific Software, May 6-8, 2008
In recent years, structural equation modeling (SEM) has developed into a well-known and well-established statistical tool in the social and behavioral sciences. The workshop will cover modern statistical methods for factor analysis and SEM models. The emphasis will be on the use of the methodology of structural equation modeling as a research tool in practical applications. A wide range of topics within SEM analysis will be covered during the three day workshop.
For more detailed information about the schedule and topics: http://www.ssicentral.com/temp/SEM_Workshop_Oslo_May2008.pdf
The workshop also includes supervised practical training on how to use the LISREL program and perform structural equation modeling.
To register for the workshop, please go to the following address: http://event.bi.no/SEM2008/
About the Instructors
The workshop will be led by Karl Jöreskog and Fan Yang Wallentin at the Norwegian School of Management.
Karl G Jöreskog is a Professor Emeritus in Statistics at the Uppsala University. He holds a PhD from the Uppsala University. He also has three Doctoral honoris causa, and two Honorary Professor titles from the Faculty of Economics and Statistics at the University of Padua, Italy, 1993; the Norwegian School of Economics., Bergen, Norway, 1996; the Faculty of Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller Univeristat, Jena, Germany, 2004; Tanjin University of Finance and Economics, Tanjin, China, 2006 and the School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2007. Karl G. Jöreskog has authored several books and numerous journal articles on factor analysis and its extensions to structural equation modeling. He has developed the LISREL model and authored the LISREL software together with Dag Sörbom. Karl G. Jöreskog has received a number of prestigious awards for his contributions in statistics.
Fan Yang Wallentin is an Associate Professor in Statistics at the Norwegian School of Management, BI, and the Uppsala University. She holds a PhD in statistics from the Uppsala University. She received the Arnberg prize of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2000. Her main research interests are in the theory and applications of structural equation modeling. She has published several chapters and articles related to this topic.
In his forthcoming presidential adress at the 3rd International Conference of the European Association of Methodology (EAM) in Oviedo, July, 8-11, 2008., Rolf Steyer will give a lecture on “How to construct latent variables“.
