{"id":9176,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/structural_equation_modeling_-sem\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:45","slug":"structural_equation_modeling_-sem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/structural_equation_modeling_-sem\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural equation modeling (SEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general set of mathematical and statistical techniques for the estimation and evaluation of a variety of &#8216;structural&#8217; hypotheses represented by a set of parameters compared to observed summary statistics. &nbsp;In effect, it combines features of multiple regression and factor analysis to identify relationships between latent variables.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Akaike&#8217;s information criterion, Causal pathways, <a href=\"factor_analysis\">Factor analysis<\/a>, Fixed, free and equal parameters, <a href=\"latent_factor-score-variable\">Latent factor\/score\/variable<\/a>, <a href=\"latent_growth_model\">Latent growth model<\/a>, <a href=\"latent_trait\">Latent trait<\/a>, Latent variable modeling, <a href=\"linear_growth_model\">Linear growth model<\/a>, <a href=\"multilevel_modeling_-mlm-\">Multilevel modeling (MLM)<\/a>, Path analysis (or causal modelling), <a href=\"path_diagram\">Path diagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general set of mathematical and statistical techniques for the estimation and evaluation of a variety of &#8216;structural&#8217; hypotheses represented by a set of parameters compared to observed summary statistics. &nbsp;In effect, it combines features of multiple regression and factor analysis to identify relationships between latent variables.&nbsp; See Akaike&#8217;s information criterion, Causal pathways, Factor analysis, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/structural_equation_modeling_-sem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Structural equation modeling (SEM)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}