Analysing observed categorical data in SPSS AMOS: a Bayesian approach Online publication date: Tue, 28-Mar-2023
by Hongwei Yang; Lihua Xu; Mark Malisa; Menglin Xu; Qintong Hu; Xing Liu; Hyungsoo Kim; Jing Yuan
International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education (IJQRE), Vol. 5, No. 4, 2022
Abstract: This study has a didactic purpose to help applied investigators and practitioners to understand the roles of observed categorical data (OCD) in structural equation modelling (SEM) and the appropriate ways of analysing such data under SPSS AMOS. To that end, the study reviews types of OCD (nominal, ordinal, dichotomous and polytomous) and their incorporation into SEM under AMOS to play different roles. The study presents two applications from the health and retirement study where Bayesian statistical inference is used to analyse one set of OCD variables serving as endogenous variables with/without groups created by another OCD variable. Besides, the study demonstrates the typical ways of summarising, reporting and interpreting the results from Bayesian statistics, and compares AMOS with several other SEM programmes (Mplus, R lavaan, Stata and SAS PROC CALIS) on handling OCD. The study concludes with summaries of the findings for its intended audience.
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