LISREL is a statistical package designed to estimate parameters ofstructural-equation models (SEM). The current version of LISREL runningon strauss is LISREL 8.72. LISREL is accompanied by the PRELIS package,currently PRELIS Version 2.7, by the MULTILEV package, currentlyVersion 7 and by the SURVEYGLIM, version 1.1.
PRELIS does preprocessing for LISREL, MULTILEV and SURVEYGLIM. Oneof the primary uses of PRELIS is to estimate polychoric correlationmatrices for ordinal or binary input variables. The output correlationmatrix may be used as input to the other programs. PRELIS performsseveral other analyses including calculation of moment matrices,linear, logistic and probit regression and censored regression.
MULTILEV estimates both linear and nonlinear multilevel models usingas input a PRELIS system file (PSF) produced by PRELIS -- can beused to calculate correct inferential statistics for complexsampling designs.
LISREL, PRELIS, MULTILEV, and SURVEYGLIM instructions must be entered into a file, referred to as a command file. The command file contains syntax that instructs the programs what computations to carry out. The full-format of the UNIX command for each of the four programs is the same, enter the program name followed by the full name of the command file and the full name of the output file, like this --
You also may enter the command to execute one of these programs without listing any command-line arguments:lisrelprelismultilevsurveyglim In this case, the program prompts for the names of the command file and output file. If you enter just one file name, the program assumes it is the command file and prompts for the name of the output file.
To print at another destination, use the -P flag followed by the name of the printer queue. For examplelpr -P whlps EX82A.out sends the file to room 009 in Willard Hall. A list of the printers is online.
Note: It usually is helpful to open more than one terminal window on strauss. Edit the command file from one window, and save it without exiting the editor. Then execute the program and view the output in the other window.
The following example uses PRELIS to estimate a polychoric correlation matrix and an asymptotic covariance matrix from raw-data input. The output matrices from PRELIS are input to LISREL. The PRELIS command file is called EX72B.PR2. The LISREL command file which uses this output from PRELIS is called EX72B.LS8.
To get results for this analysis, run PRELIS first, so it can produce the output polychoric correlation (PANELUSA.PME) and asymptotic covariance matrices (PANELUSA.ACE). Then run LISREL. In this example, the PRELIS and LISREL command files have the same root-part of their file names. It's therefore advisable to direct the output to different files. Otherwise, the LISREL run would overwrite the output from the PRELIS run.
The MULTILEV program operates in a fashion analogous to running LISREL with input produced by PRELIS. Input to the MULTILEV program is an output file produced by PRELIS. And, the example MULTILEV command files that come with the lisrel instalation have the same extension used for PRELIS command files, (.PR2). So, first run PRELIS to process the ASCII (raw) data file. Then run MULTILEV.
One of the examples that comes with LISREL carries out a multilevel analysis of income. The commands for the initial PRELIS run are stored in a file named INCOME1A.PR2. And the commands for the MULTILEV run are stored in INCOME1.PR2
The SURVEYGLIM program also operates in a fashion analogous to running LISREL using input produced by PRELIS. Input to the SURVEYGLIM program is an output file produced by PRELIS. And, the SURVEYGLIM command files have the same extension used for PRELIS command files, (.PR2). So, first run PRELIS to process the ASCII (raw) data file. Then run SURVEYGLIM.
One of the examples that comes with LISRELcarries out a SURVEYGLIM analysis of substance abuse. The commands for the initial PRELIS run are stored in a file named ABUSE1.PR2. And the commands for the SURVEYGLIM run are stored in SGLIMEX1.PR2
See the web site for Scientific Software (SSI). for more information including access to documentation and many examples. The example command files and other useful documentation may be downloaded. If you need help quickly, you may call the IT Help Center at 831-6000 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Or, you can submit a question through e-mail.
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