{"id":1573,"date":"2011-08-01T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2011-08-02T03:22:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:22:13","slug":"confirmatory-factor-analysis-with-amos-omg-its-this-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/confirmatory-factor-analysis-with-amos-omg-its-this-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmatory Factor Analysis with AMOS: OMG it’s THIS button"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve forgotten more about statistical software than you’ll ever know!<\/p>\n

I don’t know why people ever say this in a bragging tone because I consider that to be my problem. I’ve forgotten it. Today, I needed to do a confirmatory factor analysis with someone using AMOS. They wanted it in AMOS so that is what I did. All the parameter estimates came out correctly, model fit indices good. The only problem is that I knew that they would want the estimates on the diagram and I could not remember how to do it. Yes, they could have copied and pasted it into Word or Graphic Converter or any of a number of other packages and then typed the numbers into text boxes, but people pay me so they can do less work, not more. Besides, I KNEW there was an option or something. Here it is:<\/p>\n

When you are at this point and you have your lovely model well-specified and all of the output shows up nicely when you select TEXT OUTPUT under VIEW<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"AMOS<\/a><\/p>\n

Click the second button at the top of the middle pane. That will put your path estimates on your diagram.<\/p>\n

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Three other things to remember<\/p>\n

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  1. For students, there is a FREE version of AMOS 5. It works great. I was amazed that something free would work so well. I thought when I saw there was\u00a0 a free version for sure it would be a scam, but no, I downloaded it from AMOS Development Corporation<\/a>, ran it on a Windows 7 machine and it works great. I believe it only runs on Windows.<\/li>\n
  2. The AMOS manual by James Arbuckle is incredibly well-written. I’m using AMOS with SPSS 18 but I noticed he wrote the 19 manual also and it’s pretty much the same. Don’t buy the manual, you can download the pdf free from lots of university sites<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. The Indiana University Stat\/Math center has a really straightforward discussion of CFA<\/a> using AMOS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Now you know the secret of why I write this blog. Because every time I forget something I remember, “I wrote a post about that once”. And the nice thing about the Internet is even if I’m in Fort Totten, ND or Lac du Flambeau, WI or Tunis, Tunisia, I can look it up and find it.<\/p>\n

    Unlike my coffee cup. Now, where did I put that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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