What is Structural Equation Modelling?

Why would you use structural equation modelling?

Can SEM test for causation?

What are the statistical analyses that fall under the umbrella of SEM?

Can SEM model error (Unexplained Variance)?

What is the key question that you ask yourself in SEM?

What is path analysis?

How do we evaluate how well our model fits the data?

Do we want a difference between the observed and expected correlation matrixes?

Is the Chi square analysis conducted on the variance - covariance matrix or the correlation matrix

The Maximum likelihood Chi square is the most common chi square in SEM, path analyis and CFA, what does it mean?

Why are there instances where the model fits the data well, yet the chi square is significant? and what do you do about it?

What are fit indices?

What are the two types of fit indices?

What is the absolute fit indices?

What is incremental fit indices?

What are the guidelines for interpreting the CFI and TLI?

What are the guidelines for interpreting RMSEA and SRMR?

What is an Endongenous variable?

If a model is a poor fit we can examine a series of statistics to understand the source(s) of misfit. What is this called

Post hoc respecifications can only be made if there is some type of?

Misfit can be identified by looking at these sources?

What are the two ways we can make changes to the path analysis model?

What is the significance test conducted to determine the effect of adding or deleting a pathway?

What are the assumptions of path analysis?