IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

Before you start writing programs that use Amos (or are used by Amos), it is a good idea to get some experience doing structural equation modeling with Amos. One way to do this is by working through the tutorial and some of the examples in the User's Guide.

The User's Guide contains many examples of programs that use Amos. The Programming Reference Guide contains many more. Although almost all of the examples in the Amos documentation use Visual Basic, C# is just as easy to use for Amos programming.

The Amos programming examples in the Programming Reference Guide and in the online help are installed with Amos. By default they are installed in the folder

C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Amos\28\Programming

Most of the examples in the Amos documentation are small, intended to demonstrate the use of one or two methods or properties at a time. Some larger examples, such as the following, perform nontrivial tasks.

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to change the appearance of latent variables

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to resize all rectangles

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to draw a path diagram

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to calculate a new fit measure

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to draw double-headed arrows

▪Use the Amos Graphics classes to name unobserved variables

For even larger examples of Amos programming, see the folder

C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Amos\28\Programming\Plugins

which contains the source code for the plugins on the Plugins menu of Amos Graphics.