Preface

This short book is a working document and prepared as supplementary material for the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) course I teach at the University of Missouri (MU). I have taught the SEM course since Fall 2008. Over the years, I have used different software packages (e.g., Amos, Mplus, and R) to illustrate and apply SEM techniques. This supplementary material focuses on R and Mplus syntax.

To cite this book, use the following:

Wang, Z. (2021). Structural Equation Modeling Using R and Mplus. Retrievable from https://zewang.netlify.app/books/sem/_book

Contents

The contents of the book roughly follow the order of lecture notes used in class.

  • Chapter 1. Introduction to R and RStudio
  • Chapter 2. Review of Basic Statistics
  • Chapter 3. Path Analysis
  • Chapter 4. Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • Chapter 5. Full Structural Equation Models
  • Chapter 6. Multiple-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • Chapter 7. Models with Mean Structures
  • Chapter 8. Latent Growth Models
  • Chapter 9. Multilevel Level Models