AMOS (Specific Statistical)
Structural Equation Modelling Package
Functionality | Background | Licence availability, restrictions & links to distributor |
AMOS provides structural equation modelling within the SPSS environment. This enables the user to specify, estimate, assess and present models to showing hypothesized relationships among variables. |
SPSS originally stood for statistical package for the social science. It was developed in the 1960s and has evolved over the years into a fully-fledged package that allows a very broad range of statistical analyses, across a wide range of disciplines, while it remains the most widely used package within the social sciences. It is now owned and sold but IBM. |
Site licence that extends to home use for staff and students. Now available as a free |
Note on Statistical Packages Designed for a Specific Set of Functions:
These packages are designed to provide a limited set of functions, but often more advanced ones than are found in general purpose statistical packages, e.g. time series analysis or Bayesian modelling.
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