Structural Equation Models From Paths to Networks /

• Main Author: Westland, J. Christopher (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 22
• Subjects: Engineering.; Management.; Industrial management.; Physics.; Statistics.; Computational intelligence.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Psychometrics.; Computational Intelligence.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Complex Networks.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.

This compact reference surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.  It reviews applications in a broad range of disciplines, particularly in the social sciences where many key concepts are not directly observable.  This is the first book to present SEM’s dev...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Structural Equation Models
• A Brief History of Structural Equation Models
• Partial Least Squares Path Analysis
• LISREL and its Progeny
• Systems of Regression Equations
• Data Collection, Control and Sample Size
• Survey and Questionnaire Data
• Research Structure and Paradigms
• From Paths to Networks: The Evolving Science of Networks.