3rd IASC world conference on
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Amathus Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus, 28-31 October, 2005
 
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

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