A model selection approach to structural equation modelling: A critical evaluation and a road map for ecologists

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

(2019) Valentin Amrhein et al.   NATURE

Simple use of BIC to Assess Model Selection Uncertainty: An Illustration using Mediation and Moderation Models

(2019) Huiping Wu et al.   MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Scientist’s guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles

(2019) James B. Grace et al.   ECOLOGY

From endosymbionts to host communities: factors determining the reproductive success of arthropod vectors

(2017) Irit Messika et al.   OECOLOGIA

An overview of structural equation modeling: its beginnings, historical development, usefulness and controversies in the social sciences

(2017) Piotr Tarka   QUALITY & QUANTITY

Selecting Path Models in SEM: A Comparison of Model Selection Criteria

(2017) Li-Chung Lin et al.   STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING-A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

(2016) Xiaojuan Liu et al.   ECOLOGY

Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach

(2015) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consistent Partial Least Squares Path Modeling

(2015) Theo K. Dijkstra et al.   MIS QUARTERLY

Path analyses of cross-sectional and longitudinal data suggest that variability in natural communities of blood-associated parasites is derived from host characteristics and not interspecific interactions

(2015) Carmit Cohen et al.   Parasites & Vectors

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Multiple effects of host-species diversity on coexisting host-specific and host-opportunistic microbes

(2013) Hadar Kedem et al.   ECOLOGY

Patterns and processes of alternative host use in a generalist parasite: insights from a natural host-parasite interaction

(2013) Amélie Lootvoet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evidence that acidification-induced declines in plant diversity and productivity are mediated by changes in below-ground communities and soil properties in a semi-arid steppe

(2013) Dima Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A Review of Eight Software Packages for Structural Equation Modeling

(2012) A. Narayanan   AMERICAN STATISTICIAN

DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS

(2012) Achaz von Hardenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Climate-driven increases in storm frequency simplify kelp forest food webs

(2011) JARRETT E. BYRNES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Host characteristics and environmental factors differentially drive the burden and pathogenicity of an ectoparasite: a multilevel causal analysis

(2011) Maxime Cardon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons

(2010) Kenneth P. Burnham et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling

(2009) Tihomir Asparouhov et al.   STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING-A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

Stepwise Model Fitting and Statistical Inference: Turning Noise into Signal Pollution

(2008) Roger Mundry et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST