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Suggestions from the Membership of the SEM-Net listserv

SEM-Net is a large and longstanding email listserv of people who are interested in Structural Equation Modeling. A group of them, led by Leslie Hayduk, put together a set of suggestions for content for the article. They do not have a lot of experience editing Wikipedia, so they gathered the material and emailed it to me to ask for help converting it to Wiki Markup. I am nearly done with this in my Sandbox, and I will start moving content over to here (Talk page) or to the main article. Suggestions or help moving content both welcome! Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 18:36, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sample size section

"Complexities which increase information demands in structural model estimation increase with the number of potential combinations of latent variables; while the information supplied for estimation increases with the number of measured parameters times the number of observations in the sample size – both are non-linear. Sample size in SEM can be computed through two methods: the first as a function of the ratio of indicator variables to latent variables, and the second as a function of minimum effect, power and significance. Software and methods for computing both have been developed by Westland (2010)."

There is a long history addressing the issues of sample size in SEM. I have edited out what I feel are personal, unfounded and unscientific assertions from an anonymous poster. Indeed this quote is from my research: both the ECRA article and my Springer book "Structural Equation Models: From Path to Network Analysis". (JC Westland)

Software

Hey MrOllie (talk · contribs), I don't think that directing folks to the software implementations of the method counts as a link directory WP:LINKSTOAVOID. [1]

>Researchers using SEM employ software programs (such as Mplus, lavaan (in R), LISREL, OpenMx, SPSS AMOS, Stata)

Would you be ok if we changed the external links to bluelinks?

> Researchers using SEM employ software programs (such as Mplus, lavaan (in R_(programming_language)), LISREL, OpenMx, SPSS AMOS, Stata)

I think that way we wouldn't lose the important information about software without feeling like we're advertising, which I think is your concern

Mason (talk) 12:29, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]