Sunday, May 10, 2009

AMOS the analysis of moment structure

Weather is getting hot here. I am fasting today and quite sleepy. Maybe coz yesterday I cycled quite far - from my home Katsura to Arashiyama. It was very nice and unforgetable journey even just about for two hours... :)))

I just want to put some information about my modeling progress. I believe modeling is easier than programing. I try to memorize back the AMOS that I had play with a year ago. Yikes..I forgot it... not totally but I wonder how can I play with it with out user guide. So I try to relocate the memory. After about 3 hours I gained it back. My mistake is just because not go through the document carefully. Theee heee heee..... So greedy to learn but not in smart way I think. I learn that make notes is sometime make your life easier - management thing!!!

This SEM tool actually opens the door for nonstatistician to solve estimation and hyphotheses testing problems that we would have required the services of the specialist. But by this tool, we can test the hyphotheses by ourselves. It is just about how to learn it and many people like to learn by doing. That's why the user guide is important.

Talking about the AMOS, it provides methods for estimating these structural equations

Maximum Likehood, Unweighted Least Squares, Generalized Least Squares, Browne's asymptotically..., Scale Free Least Square.

I wonder why I don't know these thing and what had happened in my statistic class in my old days! Just one thought - MALAYSIAN we need Math & Sc to survive!

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