Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

If you want to keep track with current developments and rapid advances within the SEM community, and if you don’t want to read whole monographs like “Structural Equation Modelling: A Bayesian Approach“, please check out the paper “Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling” written by Jesus Palomo, David B. Dunson and Ken Bollen. This paper is published in the “Handbook of Latent Variable and Related Models” edited by Sik-Yum Lee. The paper provides a consice and accessible introduction on what is Bayesian SEM all about. Furthermore, the authors give some good impressions on how to write about and to report on Bayesian SEM findings. The other side of the coin is that the handbook is quite expensive ($150). But, lucky you, the author Ken Bollen provides a free download of the paper on his homepage.