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Introduction
models. It provides a test of univariate normality for each observed variable as well as
a test of multivariate normality and attempts to detect outliers.
IBM SPSS Amos accepts a path diagram as a model specification and displays
parameter estimates graphically on a path diagram. Path diagrams used for model
specification and those that display parameter estimates are of presentation quality.
They can be printed directly or imported into other applications such as word
processors, desktop publishing programs, and general-purpose graphics programs.
About the Tutorial
The tutorial is designed to get you up and running with Amos Graphics. It covers some
of the basic functions and features and guides you through your first Amos analysis.
Once you have worked through the tutorial, you can learn about more advanced
functions using the online Help, or you can continue working through the examples to
get a more extended introduction to structural modeling with IBM SPSS Amos.
About the Examples
Many people like to learn by doing. Knowing this, we have developed many examples
that quickly demonstrate practical ways to use IBM SPSS Amos. The initial examples
introduce the basic capabilities of Amos as applied to simple problems. You learn
which buttons to click, how to access the several supported data formats, and how to
maneuver through the output. Later examples tackle more advanced modeling
problems and are less concerned with program interface issues.
Examples 1 through 4 show how you can use Amos to do some conventional
analyses—analyses that could be done using a standard statistics package. These
examples show a new approach to some familiar problems while also demonstrating
all of the basic features of Amos. There are sometimes good reasons for using Amos
to do something simple, like estimating a mean or correlation or testing the hypothesis
that two means are equal. For one thing, you might want to take advantage of the ability
of Amos to handle missing data. Or maybe you want to use the bootstrapping capability
of Amos, particularly to obtain confidence intervals.
Examples 5 through 8 illustrate the basic techniques that are commonly used
nowadays in structural modeling.