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It would be good to have these for Project Deimos. The release will therefore be delayed. For this I will need to create a concordance file to create the index. See first post for schedule changes. This approach includes, as special cases, many wellknown conventional techniques, including the general linear model and common factor analysis. With Amos, you can quickly specify, view, and modify your model graphically using simple drawing tools.
Simply specify the model graphically left. Amos quickly performs the computations and displays the results right. Structural equation modeling SEM is sometimes thought of as esoteric and difficult to learn and use. This is incorrect. Indeed, the growing importance of SEM in data analysis is largely due to its ease of use.
SEM opens the door for nonstatisticians to solve estimation and hypothesis testing problems that once would have required the services of a specialist.
For this reason, every effort was made to see that it is easy to use. Amos integrates an easy-to-use graphical interface with an advanced computing engine for SEM. The publication-quality path diagrams of Amos provide a clear representation of models for students and fellow researchers. The numeric methods implemented in Amos are among the most effective and reliable available.
When confronted with missing data, Amos performs state-of-the-art estimation by full information maximum likelihood instead of relying on ad-hoc methods like listwise or pairwise deletion, or mean imputation. The program can analyze data from several populations at once. It can also estimate means for exogenous variables and intercepts in regression equations.
The program makes bootstrapped standard errors and confidence intervals available for all parameter estimates, effect estimates, sample means, variances, covariances, and correlations. Multiple models can be fitted in a single analysis. Amos examines every pair of models in which one model can be obtained by placing restrictions on the parameters of the other.
The program reports several statistics appropriate for comparing such. It provides a test of univariate normality for each observed variable as well as a test of multivariate normality and attempts to detect outliers. Path diagrams used for model specification and those that display parameter estimates are of presentation quality. They can be printed directly or imported into other applications such as word processors, desktop publishing programs, and general-purpose graphics programs. The tutorial is designed to get you up and running with Amos Graphics.
It covers some of the basic functions and features and guides you through your first Amos analysis. Once you have worked through the tutorial, you can learn about more advanced functions using the online Help, or you can continue working through the examples to get a more extended introduction to structural modeling with IBM SPSS Amos. Many people like to learn by doing. The initial examples introduce the basic capabilities of Amos as applied to simple problems.
You learn which buttons to click, how to access the several supported data formats, and how to maneuver through the output. Later examples tackle more advanced modeling problems and are less concerned with program interface issues. Examples 1 through 4 show how you can use Amos to do some conventional analyses—analyses that could be done using a standard statistics package.
These examples show a new approach to some familiar problems while also demonstrating all of the basic features of Amos.
There are sometimes good reasons for using Amos to do something simple, like estimating a mean or correlation or testing the hypothesis that two means are equal. For one thing, you might want to take advantage of the ability of Amos to handle missing data. Or maybe you want to use the bootstrapping capability of Amos, particularly to obtain confidence intervals.
Examples 5 through 8 illustrate the basic techniques that are commonly used nowadays in structural modeling.
Example 9 and those that follow demonstrate advanced techniques that have so far not been used as much as they deserve. These techniques include:. Bootstrapping to obtain estimated standard errors and confidence intervals. Amos makes these techniques especially easy to use, and we hope that they will become more commonplace. Tip: If you have questions about a particular Amos feature, you can always refer to the extensive online Help provided by the program.
Many excellent SEM textbooks are available. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal contains methodological articles as well as applications of structural modeling. Carl Ferguson and Edward Rigdon established an electronic mailing list called Semnet to provide a forum for discussions related to structural modeling. You can find information about subscribing to Semnet at www. Many users of previous versions of Amos provided valuable feedback, as did many users who tested the present version.
Torsten B. Eric Loken reviewed Examples 32 and He also provided valuable insights into mixture modeling as well as important suggestions for future developments in Amos. A last word of warning: While Amos Development Corporation has engaged in extensive program testing to ensure that Amos operates correctly, all complicated software, Amos included, is bound to contain some undetected bugs.
We are committed to correcting any program errors. If you believe you have encountered one, please report it to technical support. Remember your first statistics class when you sweated through memorizing formulas and laboriously calculating answers with pencil and paper? The professor had you do this so that you would understand some basic statistical concepts. Later, you discovered that a calculator or software program could do all of these calculations in a split second.
This tutorial is a little like that early statistics class. The intent of this tutorial is to simply get you started using Amos Graphics. Once you have worked through the tutorial, you can learn about more advanced functions from the online help, or you can continue to learn incrementally by working your way through the examples. If you performed a typical installation, you can find the path diagram constructed in this tutorial in this location:.
The file Startsps. For many tasks, Amos also provides keyboard shortcuts. For information about the toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts, see the online help.
Hamilton provided several measurements on each of 21 states. Three of the measurements will be used in this tutorial:. You can find the data in the Tutorial directory within the Excel 8. The data are as follows:. This is a simple regression model where one observed variable, SAT , is predicted as a linear combination of the other two observed variables, Education and Income. As with nearly all empirical data, the prediction will not be perfect. Each single-headed arrow represents a regression weight.
The number 1 in the figure specifies that Other must have a weight of 1 in the prediction of SAT. Some such constraint must be imposed in order to make the model identified , and it is one of the features of the model that must be communicated to Amos.
Then double-click a path diagram in the View Path Diagrams window. Your work area appears. The large area on the right is where you draw path diagrams. The toolbar on the left provides one-click access to the most frequently used buttons. You can use either the toolbar or menu commands for most operations. The next step is to specify the file that contains the Hamilton data.
This tutorial uses a Microsoft Excel 8. E Browse to the Tutorial folder. If you performed a typical installation, the path is. E In the Files of type list, select Excel 8. E Select Hamilton. The next step is to draw the variables in your model.
E In the drawing area, move your mouse pointer to where you want the Education rectangle to appear. Click and drag to draw the rectangle. E In the drawing area, move your mouse pointer to the right of the three rectangles and click and drag to draw the ellipse. E In the drawing area, right-click the top left rectangle and choose Object Properties from the pop-up menu. E In the Variable name text box, type Education. E Use the same method to name the remaining variables.
Then close the Object Properties dialog box. Now you will add arrows to the path diagram, using the following model as your guide:. E Use this method to add each of the remaining single - headed arrows. E Click and drag to draw a double-headed arrow between Income and Education.
To identify the regression model, you must define the scale of the latent variable Other. You can do this by fixing either the variance of Other or the path coefficient from Other to SAT at some positive value.
The following shows you how to fix the path coefficient at unity 1. E Click the Parameters tab. E In the Regression weight text box, type 1. E Close the Object Properties dialog box. There is now a 1 above the arrow between Other and SAT. Your path diagram is now complete, other than any changes you may wish to make to its appearance. It should look something like this:.
You can change the appearance of your path diagram by moving and resizing objects. These changes are visual only; they do not affect the model specification. E In the drawing area, click and drag the object to its new location. E In the drawing area, click and drag the object until you are satisfied with its size and shape. E In the drawing area, click the object you wish to delete. Some of the output in Amos is optional. In this step, you will choose which portions of the optional output you want Amos to display after the analysis.
E Select the Minimization history , Standardized estimates , and Squared multiple correlations check boxes. The only thing left to do is perform the calculations for fitting the model. Note that in order to keep the parameter estimates up to date, you must do this every time you change the model, the data, or the options in the Analysis Properties dialog box.
E Because you have not yet saved the file, the Save As dialog box appears. Type a name for the file and click Save. Amos calculates the model estimates.
The panel to the left of the path diagram displays a summary of the calculations. When Amos has completed the calculations, you have two options for viewing the output: text and graphics. The tree diagram in the upper left pane of the Amos Output window allows you to choose a portion of the text output for viewing. E Click Estimates to view the parameter estimates. E Click the Show the output path diagram button.
E In the Parameter Formats pane to the left of the drawing area, click Standardized estimates. The value 0. The values 0. E In the Parameter Formats pane to the left of the drawing area, click Unstandardized estimates.
The Print dialog box appears. Amos Graphics lets you easily export your path diagram to other applications such as Microsoft Word. E Switch to the other application and use the Paste function to insert the path diagram. Amos Graphics exports only the diagram; it does not export the background.
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