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		<title>O&#8217;Connell &amp; McCoach (Eds.) (2008): Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Michael and I enjoy reading &#8220;Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data&#8221; edited by Ann A. O&#8217;Connell &#38; D. Betsy McCoach. For anyone interested to becoming familiar with multi-level modeling, we especially recommend the following articles: &#8220;Modeling Growth Using Multilevel and Alternative Approaches&#8221; by Janet K. Holt (pp. 111-159): Janet gently explains data requirements and assumptions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/09/oconnell-mccoach-eds-2008-multilevel-modeling-of-educational-data/</link>
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		<title>London, UK: One-day Mplus training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A one-day training course titled &#8220;An introduction to Structural Equation Modelling using Mplus&#8221; to be held at City University, London, UK in December 2010 on Monday 13th December, 2010 and repeated on Tuesday 14th December, 2010 The price for the course is £250, with a student rate of £175 Details of the course are given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/09/london-uk-one-day-mplus-training/</link>
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		<title>New Book: Datenanalyse mit Mplus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this posting concerns only German readers: Christian Geiser&#8217;s book &#8220;Datenanalyse mit Mplus&#8221; is now published. We recommend this book to everyone using Mplus in Germany because this book contains not only a plethora of screenshots but also Mplus outfile tables. Further, the book is accompanied by several data files. Hip Hip Hooray to Christian! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/08/new-book-datenanalyse-mit-mplus/</link>
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		<title>Bayes finally reached Mplus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, &#8220;Structural Equation Modelling: A Bayesian Approach&#8221; was published by Sik-Yum Lee. This monograph gave the first full account on Bayesian SEM. However, interested readers may struggle with the WinBUGS software introduced in the monograph. The good news is now: Four new documents describing Bayesian analysis in Mplus are now available! I especially recommend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/07/bayes-finally-reached-mplus/</link>
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		<title>Invariance testing using lavaan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Michael showed me the lavaan function &#60;measurement.invariance&#62;. I instantly was delirious with joy: While in AMOS one struggles through several chi-square difference test tables, lavaan provides an easy to read output &#8211; no more, no less. Measurement invariance tests: Model 1: configural invariance chisq      df  pvalue    cfi    tli  rmsea       bic 18.570 26.000   0.854  1.000  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/07/invariance-testing-using-lavaan/</link>
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		<title>Utrecht: First Dutch Mplus User meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October the 27th (9.00 a.m.- 4.30 p.m.) the first meeting of the &#8217;Mplus user&#8217;s group: Exploring the boundaries of Mplus&#8216; will take place at Utrecht University. The aim of the Mplus user group is to bring together users of Mplus and to share information, learn about new developments and discuss solutions for typical Mplus problems. We will organize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/06/utrecht-first-dutch-mplus-user-meeting/</link>
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		<title>lavaan &#8211; a user-friendly SEM package for R</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when we pondered about an Mplus-style interface for SEM packages in R? Turns out that Yves Rosseel not only had the same idea, but did actually implement such a package first on top of the sem-package and finally as a standalone library. Lavaan is still in beta but offers a very simple syntax similar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/05/lavaan-a-user-friendly-sem-package-for-r/</link>
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		<title>Barcelona, Spain: EQS/REQS course in July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time: July 1-2, 2010 Instructors: Peter M. Bentler &#38; Eric Wu Course schedule]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/05/barcelona-spain-eqsreqs-course-in-july/</link>
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		<title>Dornburg, Germany: Symposium &#8220;Causality in Educational Research&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This symposium provides the creme de la creme of current SEM-fellows&#8230; Place: Altes Schloss Dornburg near Jena, Großer Kaisersaal Time: July 14 to 16, 2010 Language: english Aim of the symposium]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/05/dornburg-germany-symposium-causality-in-educational-research/</link>
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		<title>Potsdam, Germany: Analysis of Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Experiments and Quasi-Experiments (one-day workshop)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When: July 20, 2010 (9.00 a.m &#8211; 17.30 p.m) Where: Venue Kongresshotel Potsdam am Templiner See Am Luftschiffhafen 1 14471 Potsdam Phone: ++49(0)331907-0 Fax.: ++49(0)331 907-70 777 E-Mail: info©hukg.de Presenter: Prof. Dr. Rolf Steyer Topics]]></description>
		<link>http://sem-blog.org/2010/05/potsdam-germany-analysis-of-total-direct-and-indirect-effects-in-experiments-and-quasi-experiments-one-day-workshop/</link>
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