Title: Latent Variable and Structural Equation
Models
Description:
Latent variable and structural equation models
have many different aims. Educational researchers and psychometricians use them
as a tool for constructing measurement scales, calibrating questions and scoring
individuals. Social and medical scientists use them in an exploratory fashion
for explaining interrelationships among a number of observed variables using a
smaller than the observed number latent variables. Political scientists and
sociologists use them for verifying or disputing a sociological or political
theory.
Recent, theoretical and methodological advances (multilevel structures,
longitudinal data, robust methods, nonlinear models, missing values) together
with the computational advancements allow complex social phenomena to be
disentangled and described by structural equation models.
The session welcomes papers on theoretical and applied developments in the area
of latent variable and structural equation modelling.
Co-Chairs:
Irini Moustaki
Department of Statistics
Athens University of Economics and Business
76 Patission Street
104 34 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 8203 543
Fax: +30 210 8230 488
E-mail: moustaki@aueb.gr
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Sik-Yum Lee
Department of Statistics
Room 124, 1/F., Lady Shaw Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories,
HONG KONG
Tel: 011-852-609-7935
Fax: 011-852-603-5188
E-mail: sylee@sparc2.sta.cuhk.edu.hk |
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