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Warning: this page is now somewhat out of date. There are new books out which introduce structural equation modelling, but I have not read them, so I can't really comment. Don't rely just on the information that is here.
This page contains books that I know and like and can recommend. Just because a book is not there, doesn't mean I don't like it, it probably means that I am not familiar with it.. For both sections I have included a link to the amazon.co.uk bookshop, so you can see price information (which will probably not be any use to you if you are not in the UK), and a link to the description of the book on the publisher's web page, if I have found one, which contains more details.Other books can be found by:
Bollen, K. (1989). Structural equations with latent
variables. Wiley InterScience.
This text has almost achieved biblical status - it is a very thorough introduction to structural equation models. It is hard going a lot of the time, and it is beginning to show its age a little - there is not a great deal of coverage of more recent advances in fit indices, for example.Bollen, K.A. and Long, J.S. (Eds.; 1993). Testing Structural Equation Models. Sage.
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I couldn't find it on Amazon.
An amazingly useful book containing information on, well, testing structural equation models. In a range of chapters it describes not only the how standard fit indices are calculated and what they mean , but also the interpretation of different fit indeices, and the general philosophy behind deciding whether a model "fits".Read more on Sage's Web pages. UK US
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Hayduk, L.A. (1996). Lisrel Issues, Debates, and
Strategies. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Not everyone will agree with everything Hayduk says - his opinions tend to be strongly held and non-consensual. He reserves special dislike for the 2-step method proposed by James, Mulaik and Brett (1982). This book is not for beginners, but raises interesting issues for people who want to know more about SEM.Hoyle, R.H. (Ed.; 1995). Structural Equation Modeling Concepts, Issues, and Applications. Sage.Read more on Johns Hopkins University Press web page.
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This is a very nice book, ideal for people just beyond the beginner stage in structural equation modelling. It contains chapters on the sorts of issues that people are likely to encounter once they start to use SEM in anger. It also includes a very useful chapter on writing about structural equation models, and several chapters of examples of applocations.Jaccard, J. and Wan, C.K. (1996). LISREL approaches to interaction effects in multiple regression.Read more on Sage's Web pages. UK US
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One of the Sage "little green books" thisa book focuses on methods of impementing interaction effects using LISREL. Like almost all of the little green books, it has a very process driven approach to the subject, and is clearly written. Be warned though, that the issue is not an easy one.Read more on Sage's Web pages. UK US
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Loehlin, J. (1998). Latent variable models (3rd Ed). Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
I think that this is an excellent introductory text. It doesn't focus entirely on SEM, instead it treats SEM as part of a class of analysis techniques including exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression.Marcoulides, G.A. and Schumacker, R.E. (Eds; 1996). Advanced structural equation modelling: issues and techniques. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Read more on the Erlbaum web page
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As it says this is an advanced text on SEM, so it is not for beginners. Its technical level is not completely impenetrable and a number of chapters are excellent sources of information.
Read more details on the Erlbaum web page.Schumacker, R.E. and Lomax, R.G. (1996). A beginner's guide to structural equation modeling. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Another excellent introductory text. It is a little more computer oriented than the other books for beginners - spending longer examining what to actually tell the computer and looking at output than, for example, Loehlin's text.Yang Jonsson, F. (1997). Non-linear structural equation models: simulation studies of the Kenny-Judd model. Acta Universitatis Upsalensis.Read more details on the Erlbaum web page.
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This book is along the more specialised lines, examining methods of estimating interaction effects of latent variables, using different estimation techniques.Series information on the Uppsala University web page.
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