Laura Castro-Schilo, Senior Research Statistician Developer, SAS
The structural equation models (SEM) platform continues to grow and evolve into a more complete and powerful platform. An important feature added to SEM in JMP® Pro 17 is multiple-group analysis (MGA). MGA allows users to test for differences in parameters across populations by enabling the specification of models that can have group-specific estimates or equality constraints on parameters across groups. In this presentation, we will demonstrate the use of MGA and other new features in SEM using real data examples. We start with a simple regression example and then turn to a longitudinal analysis example that showcases the flexibility of MGA. Lastly, we show how survey development can be expedited by a new feature that links Exploratory Factor Analysis to the SEM platform.
