What is AMOS Graphics?

• AMOS graphics is for beginners to understand the Manifest (questions) and Latent
Variables (after filtering error the questions are added) and their relationships
• Also to understand Exogenous (Independent) and Endogenous (Dependent)
variables
• The researcher can draw models and could run them without any tedious
programming.
• Simple, Clear and easy to understand

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ICONs and their purpose

First row icons are useful to draw

manifest, latent and structure variables
and models

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ICONs and their purpose

Second row icons are useful to draw

variances, covariances and unique error
to complete a model

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ICONs and their purpose

Third row icons are useful to type title

and also to check what variables are
available for processing

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ICONs and their purpose

Fourth row icons are useful to select

items and deselect items

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ICONs and their purpose

Fifth row icons are useful to duplicate,

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move and delete items

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ICONs and their purpose

Sixth row icons are useful to resize,

rotate and reflect items

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ICONs and their purpose

Seventh row icons are useful to move

numbers, scroll and touchup items

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ICONs and their purpose

Eighth row icons are useful to open SPSS

file, Select output and run AMOS

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ICONs and their purpose

Ninth row icons are useful to copy, view

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output and save the model drawn

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ICONs and their purpose

Tenth and other row icons are rarely used

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and occasionally you will use them for
expanding and contracting model drawn

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Draw a path diagram

Click this icon and bring it to the drawing

area and draw the above path diagram

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You can move this with bus icon
Also you can rotate this suitably as
shown in the next slide

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Moved and rotated path diagram

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Errors Latent Variable

Manifest Variables Variances

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Draw a conceptual framework
Error

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Covariances

Endogenous Variable

Exogenous Variables
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Draw a Structural model

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Covariances

Endogenous Variable
Structural model

Exogenous Variables
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