Structural Equation Modeling

2026/2027

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Sociology

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1 module

Instructor

Sokolov, Boris

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is intended to give an introduction to the foundational concepts and basic computational techniques of structural equation modeling (SEM) and their implementation in a popular SEM software tool, R package lavaan. The topics covered by the course are exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (E/CFA), path models, and structural equation models. In addition, practical issues of estimation, visualization and presentation of various types of SEM models are discussed. To succeed in this course, students are assumed to have basic knowledge of statistics and be familiar with several conventional statistical methods, most importantly regression analysis. In addition, for practical exercises we will use R programming environment, so another major prerequisite is a basic knowledge of R.