This website contains materials for the research master psychology courses Structural Equation Modeling 1: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling 2: Structural Equation Modeling, which I teach at the University of Amsterdam.
SEM 1: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
- Link to student questionnaires (please fill in!)
- Link to Youtube playlist
- Link to code repository
- Course Syllabus
Week 0: Statistics recap
Week 1: Common cause modeling
Week 2: Fitting CFA models
Code examples
CFA estimation video series
Week 3: Latent growth models and measurement invariance
- Video summary
- Lecture Slides
- Exercises
- Video: Latent growth models in lavaan, psychonetrics, Jasp and Onyx
- Video: Measurement invariance testing in Jasp
Week 4: Advanced topics
SEM 2: Structural Equation Modeling
Week 0: Expectation and covariance algebra
Week 1: Causal modeling and SEM
- Video summary
- Lecture Slides
- Exercises (datafile)
- Code examples for lavaan, semPlot and psychonetrics
Week 2: Causality and equivalent models
Week 3: Network models and panel data