This book's strength is that it carefully walks the reader through all steps required to conduct an SEM analysis. Checklists are provided for each step, from model specification through validation. The accompanying CD provides all of the programs needed to do the analysis, with accompanying screen shots and directions in the book to allow the reader to self-teach the software application. This book would serve well as either a reference text or a required text for a course.
—Technometrics
This book would be an invaluable resource for any student or researcher who wishes to begin exploring SEM, path analysis, or confirmatory factor analysis and who is willing to conscientiously treat this book as a self-taught course....a book which manages to be clear and understandable without spoon-feeding or talking down to the reader.
—Journal of Personality Assessment
Before Schumacker and Lomax, I had a difficult time identifying the 'one source' that would provide a very straightforward introduction to SEM, enough detail about these modeling methods and current issues in the field, and enough of a base for a reader to take the next step and formally consider their own data in SEM...I am a great fan of this book.
—Abigail T. Panter, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This revised edition is intended to give students and researchers a basic understanding of SEM, focusing on the conceptual steps one takes in analyzing theoretical models. SEM is useful in statistical methods courses in social science, education, busines
