Welcome to the Spring 2011 semester. With all of my scattered postings on this blog over the past few years, the information is not that well organized. Below, I have attempted to organize the material in outline form, with links to the relevant postings from previous years.

Intro: The Pyramid of Success

Correlation and Regression (here, here, and here)

Path Analysis (here and here)

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Confirmatory Factor Analysis (here, here, and here)...

...and Associated Basic Concepts (model fit; reporting fit; degrees of freedom [here and here])

Full Structural Models (here, here, and here); also see the following article for discussion of what a "model" represents:

Rodgers, J. L. (2010). The epistemology of mathematical and statistical modelling. A quiet revolution. American Psychologist, 65, 1-12. 

Video clip of legendary physicist Richard Feynman discussing conclusions one can draw from tests of theoretical models.

Beyond the Basics of SEM (contains all our topics for roughly the second half of the course)

Diagram for Assignment 2

SEM The Musical: 1, 2, 3, 4

Miscellaneous (here)