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Vilas Research Professor of Sociology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
4430 Sewell Bldg.
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Office Hours: 2-4:30 pm Tuesday
(and by appointment)
The seminar will focus on sociological applications of path analysis and structural equation models. Following a review of basic ideas of structure, interpretation, estimation, and inference in recursive models, the seminar will work through problems of specification, identification, and model selection in simple latent-variable models and nonrecursive models, using published examples where possible. The LISREL model will be introduced, and its use in the specification of a variety of models will be reviewed: Factor models, MIMIC models, recursive and nonrecursive models with and without unobservables, multiple group models, simple models of nested data, models of repeated measurements, models for ordinal categorical data, and models for missing data. If time permits, we may look into the specification of latent growth curve models.
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