I don't know the situation of psychology. In sociology, SEM is regarded is advanced statistical technique, but I am not quite sure if it is golden model. Actually, SEM is not so common in journal papers. It is not about R. Sorry for being off-topic.
Best 2009/12/28 Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name>: > Well, I guess it will be extremely difficult to persuade your teacher > to use the sem package in R. AFAIK, AMOS and LISREL have become the > golden standard for SEM in China, and SEM has become a golden model > for analysis in social science and psychology. I have been a cynic to > SEM for a long time, because I strongly believe this model has been > completely abused, and perhaps the "easy-to-use" AMOS has been helping > people abuse SEM. A common phenomenon I see is, people do not care > about the model at all - all they care about is whether AMOS can > successfully compute the coefficients; if AMOS failed, they will try > to (randomly) set constraints to the model, i.e. add/remove this > arrow, drag some variables into/out of the model, set this > coefficient/variance to 1. > > Anyway, I encourage you to ask your teacher why AMOS is "more > suitable". I have a couple of very ridiculous stories about the SEM > software, in which I can only feel the blind faith in software. > Sigh... > > The good thing is, R is open source, so is the sem package. You can > see everything in it, and you can extend it as you wish (in case your > teacher think it is less suitable). > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name > Department of Statistics, Iowa State University > 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA > > > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Reeyarn_李智洋_10928113 <reey...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Dear Bruno and Joe, >> >> Thanks for advising! >> >> >> Reeyarn >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Bruno Falissard <falissar...@wanadoo.fr> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Joe King <j...@joepking.com> wrote: >> >>> I am going to take SEM this next quarter in my doctoral program. My >>> suggestion is to use the program your professor suggests and try to >>> re-create your models in R using the SEM package. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > -- Wincent Ronggui HUANG Doctoral Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html ______________________________________________ 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.
