140.658 STATISTICS FOR
PSYCHOSOCIAL
RESEARCH II,
Structural Equations
2nd term 2003
Syllabus: MSWord2002, PDF
Email the Instructors
Elizabeth
Garrett-Mayer: esg@jhu.edu
Richard
Miech: rmiech@jhsph.edu
Email
theTeaching Assistants
Xianghua
Luo: xluo@jhsph.edu
Wadih
Maalouf:
wmaalouf@jhsph.edu
LABS WILL BE HELD FRIDAYS IN ROOM W3025
LECTURE NOTES:
Monday October 27:
Introduction
to Structural Equation Models (richard) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday October 29: Causal
Inference (liz) PPT
or PDF
Friday October 31: NO LAB
Monday November 3:
Regression
for Items (liz) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday November 5:
Introduction
to Path Analysis (richard) PPT
or PDF
Friday November 7: LAB
Monday November 10:
Examples
of Path Analysis (richard) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday November 12:
Introduction
to Structural Equations with Latent Variables (liz) PPT
or PDF
Friday November 14: LAB
Monday November 17:
Inference
Using Structural Equation Models (liz) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday November 19: Commonly
Applied Structural Equation Models (richard) PPT
or PDF
Friday November 21: LAB
Monday November
24:
Item Response Theory (richard) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday November 26: Advanced
Structural Equation Models (liz) PPT
or PDF
Friday November 28: NO LAB (Thanksgiving
Holiday)
Monday December 1:
Introduction
to Latent Class Regression (liz) PPT
or PDF
Wednesday December 3: Latent
Class Regression (liz) (see 12/1 lecture notes)
Friday December 5: LAB
Monday December 8: Using SEMs for
Genetic
Analyses (richard) PPT or PDF
(Additional handout on Identifiability: PPT
or PDF)
Wednesday December 10: Growth
Curve Models (richard) PPT
or PDF
Friday December 12: LAB
Monday December 15: REVIEW
(liz
& richard) PPT or PDF
Wednesday December 17: FINAL EXAM
(in class, open note, open book)
PROBLEM SETS:
Problem Set #1 (Word
or PDF)
due 11/21
data(SPSS)
data(Stata)
answer key
Problem Set #2 (Word
of PDF)
due 12/3
data(SPSS)
data(Stata)
answer key
Problem Set #3 (Word
or PDF)
due 12/15
data
(riskbehav_boys.txt riskbehav_girls.txt)
answer key
COMPUTING HANDOUTS FOR PROBLEM SETS:
Problem Set # 1 Amos
handout 1 (Word or PDF),
Amos handout 2 (Word or PDF)
Problem Set # 2: Amos
hints (Word or PDF)
Problem Set # 3: MPLUS handout
(Word or PDF)
USEFUL LINKS:
Mplus website: www.statmodel.com