SEM with Mplus: Longitudinal data analysis

Course website:

mpluswizard.com

Course framework and background:

This online course covers the foundations of structural equation modelling using the software Mplus, with topics including:

• Autoregressive models
• Longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis
• Longitudinal measurement invariance
• Latent growth curve models: Linear, Quadratic, Piecewise
• Growth mixture modelling (GMM)
• Latent class growth analysis
• GMM-based structural equation modelling

Course format:

Each course has 3 units, released at a rate of one per week, every Wedensday, at 12 noon London time. 
 

The course contains 3 elements:

1.  Video-based lessons: These are pre-recorded and made available to you 24/7, so you can fit them around your schedule. To aid active learning, placeholders appear throughout the videos to invite you to “have a think” before the answer is given.
2. Mplus files: A dropbox folder contains all the Mplus files used in the course, plus a few other external resources. The best use of the files is to annotate them as you go along.
3. Discussion forum: The website  includes a "Discussion forum". You are welcome to post questions there about anything that might be unclear in the course.

This course is a data analysis course, not a statistics course. This means we will learn when to use different statistical techniques based on our research questions, what these techniques do (in an intuitive non-mathematical way), how to apply them using Mplus and how to interpret the results. 

As this course is non-mathematical, so should be suitable for anyone. However, if you are entirely new to SEM and Mplus, I highly recommend you also take the Foundation course (listed on the course website, at mpluswizard.com) .

Teacher and course origins:

I am an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in Developmental Psychology. Click here to see my university profile.  

This online course emulates my in-person ‘SEM with Mplus’ courses, which have been running since 2013 in Cambridge. The courses were first delivered under the umbrella of the University of Cambridge and then as a private venture, hosted by Selwyn College, Cambridge. 

All the online courses are also endorsed and published on the official Mplus software website.