Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Management

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): MGMT 595 OR STAT 310 OR STAT 410 OR (PSYC 502 AND PSYC 503) OR (POLI 502 AND POLI 503) OR (ECON 510 AND ECON 511)

Description: STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS MODELS ***** This course will explore issues related to measurement and hypothesis testing interpretation in management research and the behavorial sciences. Structural equations methodology (also known variously as simultaneous equation systems, path analysis, and causal modeling) will be used as the primary means of analysis, but the course also considers reliability, validity, explanation, prediction, control, and understanding of individual, group, and organizational phenomena. Examples drawn from managment, the social sciences, and psychology will be used to illustrate the approaches and concepts examined. An introdouctory background in probability and statistics, prefreable including multiple regression, will be assumed. Pre-req- MGMT 595 and instructor's permission, or STAT 310 or equivalent, STAT 410 or equivalent recommended, or PSYC 502 and PSYC 503, or POLI 502 and POLI 503, or ECON 510 and ECON 511, and graduate standing.