Böcker i Multivariate Applications Series-serien

Modeled after Barbara Byrne's other best-selling structural equation modeling (SEM) books, this practical guide reviews the basic concepts and applications of SEM using Mplus Versions 5 & 6. The author reviews SEM applications based on actual data taken from her own research. Using non-mathematical language, it is written for the novice SEM user. With each application chapter, the author "walks" the reader through all steps involved in testing the SEM model including: an explanation of the issues addressed illustrated and annotated testing of the hypothesized and post hoc models explanation and interpretation of all Mplus input and output files important caveats pertinent to the SEM application under study a description of the data and reference upon which the model was based the corresponding data and syntax files available under "Supplementary Material" below The first two chapters introduce the fundamental concepts of SEM and important basics of the Mplus program. The remaining chapters focus on SEM applications and include a variety of SEM models presented within the context of three sections: Single-group analyses, Multiple-group analyses, and other important topics, the latter of which includes the multitrait-multimethod, latent growth curve, and multilevel models. Intended for researchers, practitioners, and students who use SEM and Mplus, this book is an ideal resource for graduate level courses on SEM taught in psychology, education, business, and other social and health sciences and/or as a supplement for courses on applied statistics, multivariate statistics, intermediate or advanced statistics, and/or research design. Appropriate for those with limited exposure to SEM or Mplus, a prerequisite of basic statistics through regression analysis is recommended.

This volume is intended to appeal to researchers who work with nested data structures or repeated measures data, including biomedical and health researchers, clinical/intervention researchers and developmental and educational psychologists. It also has some potential as a graduate level text.

Beginning with an overview of the basic concepts of SEM and the EQS program, this book works through applications starting with simple single group analyses, through to more advanced applications, such as a multi-group, latent growth curve, and multilevel modeling. It provides a non-mathematical introduction to the basic concepts of SEM.

This study focuses on the examination of how individuals behave across time, and to what degree this behaviour changes, fluctuates, and is or is not stable. This change in individual behaviour is called "intraindividual variability".

This work covers topics such as meta-analysis of effect sizes, meta-analysis of correlations and conversion and transformation equations.

Introduces readers to the Rule Space Method (RSM) a technique that transforms unobservable knowledge and skill variables into observable and measurable attributes. This book also presents an overview of cognitive assessment research and nonparametric and parametric person-fit statistics.

Introduces a fresh methodology for the analysis of test results used in evaluating student progress that demonstrates an individual's state of knowledge. This book also introduces readers to the Rule Space Method (RSM), a technique that transforms unobservable knowledge and skill variables into observable and measurable attributes.

This book is intended as a celebration of the seminal work of Rod McDonald's career and covers a wide range of topics in psychometrics.

This new book features selected papers from Paul Meehl's, "Psychodiagnosis," as well as other new material. The reader is organized into five areas: "Theory building and appraisal"– how we discover and test the true causal relations of psy