Newsom 1 USP 655 SEM Winter 2010 Software Feature EQS 6.1 AMOS 18.0 LISREL 8.8 Mplus http://www.mvsoft.com http://www.smallwaters.com http://www.ssicentral.com http://www.statmodel.com http://www.spss.com Imports Data Types raw ASCII, covariance, raw ASCII, Dbase, Excel, raw ASCII, covariance raw ASCII, covariance SPSS, BMDP, Dbase. FoxPro, Lotus, Access, matrix, SPSS, SAS, matrix Imported data must SPSS (through SPSS: Stata, BMDP, Dbase, Statistica, converted to EQS SAS and others) Systat, Excel among format. others. Imported data must be converted to covariance matrix by Prelis, but raw ASCII format can be read directly Graphic interface Yes Yes Yes No Estimations ULS, GLS, ML, ML ML, ML robust GLS, ADF, ULS, GLS, ML, ML ULS, GLS, ML, multiple methods Robust, ADF ULS or SLS (scale-free least Robust, WLS, DWLS ML Robust options, squares) several WLS options Missing data (FIML) Yes Yes Yes Yes Fit indices Many Many Many Limited Categorical data Yes Yes Yes Yes, special features Robust ML Yes No Yes Yes Bootstrapping/resa Yes Yes Yes Yes mpling Latent Class No Yes Yes Yes variables/Mixture Multilevel Analysis Yes No Yes Yes, special features Growth Curve Yes Yes Yes Yes Analysis Sample Weights Yes (No) Yes Yes Complex Sampling No No Yes Yes Design adjustments (variance adjustments) Some less commonly used programs . CALIS – a procedures available in SAS with syntax that mimics LISREL or EQS. Has not been updated for a number of years and does not contain many of the newer features. http://www.sas.com, http://www.sfu.ca/sasdoc/sashtml/stat/chap19/index.htm . Mx – matrix algebra package with fitting functions to allow structural equation modeling and missing data analysis developed by Michael Neale. Freeware. http://views.vcu.edu/mx/ . SEPATH – structural modeling software developed by James Steiger. Packaged with Statistica data analysis software. http://www.statsoft.com/products/advanced.html#structural . TETRAD – an exploratory SEM program that searches for the correct causal structure, developed by Spirtes, Glymour & Scheines. http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/tetrad/ .