Videos

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User-defined estimand: One estimand

This video shows how to estimate a single indirect effect, test it for significance and obtain a confidence interval for it.

  • Watch the Amos 19 video. (9:07)
  • Watch the Amos 20 video. (8:30)

User-defined estimand: Multiple estimands

This video shows how to fit a linear growth curve model.

  • Watch the Amos 19 video. (9:24)
  • Watch the Amos 20 video. (8:53)

User-defined estimand: Compare two standardized regression weights

This video shows how to find out if two standardized regression weights differ significantly.

  • Watch the Amos 19 video. (3:26)
  • Watch the Amos 20 video. (3:17)

Linear Growth Curve

This video shows how to fit a linear growth curve model. (16:38)


Indirect Effects

This video shows how to estimate indirect effects and test them for significance. (4:56)


Ordered-categorical Data

This video shows how to fit a factor analysis model using ordered-categorical data. It is based on Example 33 in the User's Guide.


Censored Data

This video shows how to fit a regression model using censored data. It is based on Example 32 in the User's Guide. (16:11)


Bayesian Estimation

The following videos show some uses of Bayesian estimation in Amos. After these videos were made, the Refresh icon was substituted in place of the Snapshot icon .

  • Introduction to Bayesian estimation with Amos (10:59)
     
  • Improper solutions (4:55). How to avoid negative variance estimates and other types of improper solutions within the Bayesian framework. You can download the files for the example.
     
  • Custom estimands (16:55). How to estimate an arbitrary function of the model parameters. This example focuses on the estimation of
    • an indirect effect
    • a direct effect
    • the difference between the indirect effect and the direct effect
    • the probability that the indirect effect is positive
    • the probability that the indirect effect exceeds the direct effect

Mixture Modeling / Latent Class Analysis

The following videos show some uses of mixture modeling and latent class analysis in Amos.

You can download the data here.


Sources of data:

Felson, R.B. and Bohrnstedt, G.W. (1979). “Are the good beautiful or the beautiful good?” The relationship between children’s perceptions of ability and perceptions of physical attractiveness. Social Psychology Quarterly, 42, 386–392.

Pothoff, R. F. & Roy, S. N. (1964). A generalized analysis of variance model used especially for growth curve problems. Biometrika, 51, 313-326.