My research topic is - "Determinants of service quality in higher education".
I have a dataset made of 5 constructs, Teaching quality ( includes overall quality, teaching quality, teacher attributes and course attributes), Resources, Support, Engagement, Skill development.
So far- I've left out overall quality and teaching quality items from CFA in order to incorporate them into causal model as dependent variables.
My AMOS however, throws a licensing error when I try to establish causal relationship between the latent variables and those manifest variables ( screenshot attached).
I will appreciate any guidance on this matter.
Thank you.
Lilit Griggs It is not a problem per se to have manifest variables as dependent variables in SEM. I suspect that the error message that you are getting is related to something else (other than the model itself).
@GriggsYeah I agree with @Christian that there seems to a licence issue with your AMOS or something related to software package.
Maybe it's the basic AMOS (not the commercial one) which is applicable only for a specified number of observations or items per sub categories.
You can try it with STATA (student version or any upgraded one) by using the SEM builder option. As you already have the model building diagram so it will be easier for you to run in STATA.
Thank you for your answers and your time, appreciate it a lot! Will have to raise this with the university service desk then. Thank you again.
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