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This is the webpage of the Working Group Structural Equation Modeling. This group exists since 1986 and is going to create information pages for its members and other people who are interested in developments and applications of structural equation models.
From 2025 on the maintenance of the webpage of the Working Group SEM is moved to the Technical University of Chemnitz. Information about future meetings will be provided under the following URL:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/soziologie/Professuren/Empirische_Sozialforschung/SEM/index.php
From 2026 on, the current webpage at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, will not be updated.
Year of foundation 1986
The Working Group „Structural Equation Modeling“ was founded in 1986 and had its first meeting at ZUMA (now GESIS) in Mannheim. Meetings will be in April or May each year depending on the local organizer who will be elected in the respective previous meeting. Members of the group are coming from various disciplines, for example Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Economy. The Working Group has an informal character. There is no affiliation to any research organization. Exchange and presentation of methodological problems in structural equation modeling and related fields are the main goal of the group. The presentation of current research problems on the meetings with questions from the speaker to the audience are highly recommended.