Structural Equation Models: An Open Textbook

This is preliminary and not really fit for human consumption. Still, you are welcome to it under the usual GNU conditions. You have been warned.

• The Book
  • Current pdf: OpenSEM_0.10M.pdf, Posted January 3, 2023
  • Download LaTeX source and graphics files in a zip archive: Posted January 3, 2023
  • View LaTeX source: Posted January 3, 2023
• Sage Support Materials: Sage is open-source mathematcs software that will be used throughout the book, though currently it appears only in Appendix B. The website for the Sage project is http://www.sagemath.org.
  • sem.sage: A collection of Sage functions for structural equation modeling. They are (will be) described in detail in Appendix B, and used throughout the text starting with Chapter One. From within the Sage notebook, they can be obtained by

    sem = 'http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner/openSEM/sage/sem.sage'
    load(sem)

    or something equivalent.

• Raw Data from the examples and homework
  • Online version: You should be able to read these directly, as illustrated in the text.
  • Zip archive (coming soon).