AMOS can be got free. Additionally, SMART PLS is used as an alternative for CFA and SEM. Similarly, you can also perform CFA and SEM in STATA. I have worked on all these three and enjoyed STATA comparatively.

Good Luck.

Dear Shah,

Thank you for your insightful help.

If Stata can do SEM and CFA, may simplify my job.

As long as you give a piece of command on that.

Warmly,

Haimanot

Dear, there are a lots of videos have discussed the CFA and SEM in STATA, I would recommend once have a look there please, if you were unable, don't hesitate to ask me.

Hi Haimanot,

I can warmly recommend the R freeware software and the lavaan-package (www.lavaan.org).

It is free and the syntax is easy to learn.

Best,

Holger

Hello Holger,

I can't pass without saying thank you for your time and genuine help.

I will come back after having a trial of your recommendation.

Frankly speaking, I was very friendly with AMOS; unluckily, it become incompatible with my present personal computer.

Many thanks

Regards,

Hi Haimanot,

U can try Lisrel

Hello Fadhlur,

Thank you for your time and suggestion.

Does Lisrel freely accessible software like AMOS?

At the moment, I'm not on the right place for shopping.

Kindly,

Hello Haimanot,

AMOS is not free software; it is owned by IBM SPSS. The other limitation about AMOS is that it is only available for Windows OS machines; the same is true for LISREL. For other commercially sold software, EQS is available for Windows or linux, but not Mac OS. Mplus is available for Windows, Mac, or linux; the same is true for Stata. SAS has a procedure, CALIS, which can be used for SEM analysis (annual license required). Finally, SmartPLS 3 is available for Windows or Mac OS (annual license required).

I endorse Holger's recommendation of the R library, lavaan; it's free, very good, and available for Windows, Mac, or linux. Other R libraries, such as OpenMx, and sem, are also available.

A review of 8 SEM programs (did not include SmartPLS) showed that all yielded very comparable results (to two decimal places), though each has its own set of strengths: Narayanan, A. (2012). A review of eight software packages for structural equation modeling, The American Statistician, 66(2), 129-138, doi:10.1080/00031305.2012.708641

Good luck with your work!

Dear David,

Pleased to say accept my gratitude for your valuable suggestion.

As you mentioned, Holger's was adviced me very soon following post; and yet, I was not familiar with R programming that makes me to return back and search other alternatives.

Now, I have attending R-" lavaan " tutorials from you-tube archives.

This is a lot to me.

Thanks,

Regards,

R version 3.3.3 Foundation for statistical computing will be of help

Dear Adekunle,

Thank you for your genuine help!

Kindly,

Hi Haimanot!

I've used Mplus and recommend it!

https://www.statmodel.com

The student version is not too costly, but it cannot be compared to R of course, since R is freeware. I've had problem with the SEM package of R (Lavaan), though, I was not able to make it work.

Best

John Kåre

try to R, Q or JASP. I am using PSPP

There is a free software Tetrad which we use for model testing.Please try the same and give me your review about your experience at [email protected] in our institute test the graduate students model on Tetrad.It is similar to AMOS.Even I cannot work on R as if a code goes wrong my whole work stops there.I am also more comfortable with AMOS.

Hi.

Personally, I prefer AMOS. It's very simple. I use the lavaas package in R studio, but I'm just a beginner. However, it looks nice, and the main advantage is that it's free.