This hands-on, medium-advanced course is designed for PhD students in business administration and related fields. Focusing on covariance structures, this course equips participants to go beyond surface-level correlations and explore the underlying mechanisms driving human behaviour, market dynamics, and organisational performance.
Through a structured five-day intensive format, participants will gain a solid foundation in matrix algebra, likelihood theory, and multivariate normality—before diving into applications like longitudinal modelling, mediation and moderation analysis, and simulation-based evaluation. You will learn the “how” and the “why” behind model selection, fit assessment, and diagnostic tools. The course literature includes cutting-edge research and applied examples demonstrating how SEM is used in top-tier publications.
- Course leader: Professor Ulf Henning Olsson, BI
- Time/Duration: Week 40/2025, 29 September - 3 October 2025
- Application deadline: 1 September 2025
- Application form: https://nettskjema.no/a/521368
- Download a pdf-flyer for the course