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. We are not going to use AMOS though we use EQS, and another prof on campus who teaches it in a different department uses LISREL, so since SEM hasn't been implemented in most commercial software and you need specialty software for it, it may be best to know several different software programs if you want to do SEM type work. I do have a feeling since R is growing so rapidly it wont take time for people in the community to create packages or develop existing packages equal to or greater than commercial software! LONG LIVE R :)
Joe King 206-913-2912 j...@joepking.com "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." --Theodore Roosevelt -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Reeyarn_???_10928113 Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 3:50 AM To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [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.
