#Check normality smartpls 3 software#
Section 3 presents a brief comparative review between the five SEM software packages. Section 2 presents the characteristics of the used model.
Moreover, an application of SEM on a standard dataset is introduced, where the performance of different estimation methods explained in statistical literature will be examined under the characteristics of the used dataset and used model. In this paper, five SEM software packages (AMOS, LISREL, and three packages in R) are reviewed to provide the researcher with the basic guidelines about each package. It was essential here to examine the performance of these methods through a real data application as well, thus, it was planned to conduct an application of SEM. It was found that assessing the performance of structural equation modeling estimation methods through a mathematical derivation is not always enough, as the estimation part is imposed to some limitations/restrictions that occur only in reality and cannot be predicted through derivation. The mostly used packages for SEM studies are Mplus, EQS, Amos, LISREL, and several packages in R. As a result, SEM statistical packages are rapidly growing to serve in this matter. Structural Equation modeling (SEM) applications are widely spread nowadays due to the need of this methodology in most of the social science studies.
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