A few years ago it could have been true, but now the package has improved (especially with the bootstrap procedure). At the moment there is no argument to recommend AMOS. Of course, some software like Mplus are actually better, but very specialized (and rather expensive). This is only a personal point of view. Bruno
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruno Falissard INSERM U669, PSIGIAM "Paris Sud Innovation Group in Adolescent Mental Health" Maison de Solenn 97 Boulevard de Port Royal 75679 Paris cedex 14, France tel : (+33) 6 81 82 70 76 fax : (+33) 1 58 41 28 43 web site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bruno.falissard/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Message d'origine----- De : r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] De la part de Reeyarn_???_10928113 Envoyé : samedi 26 décembre 2009 12:50 À : R-help@r-project.org Objet : [R] Is SEM package of R suitable for sem analysis Dears, I'm a college student and In doing my statistics homework. I use R with SEM package as my tool for sem analysis, but my teacher told me AMOS is more suitable for such analysis. Could someone help tell me whether it is true that some commercial software is better accepted in academic fields? Sorry if I should not post such topics here. -- Best Regards, Reeyarn T. Lee Accounting Dept, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
