'''''Structural Equations with Latent Variables''''' is a book by [[Kenneth Bollen]]. It explains basic ideas and methods in the field of [[structural equation modeling]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Jöreskog |first=Karl G. |authorlink=Karl Gustav Jöreskog |title=Structural Equation Modeling with Ordinal Variables |journal=Lecture Notes-Monograph Series |volume=24 |year=1994 |publisher=[[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]] |pages=297{{ndash}}310 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4355811 |quote=The basic ideas and methods of structural equation models are explained in Bollen (1989).}}</ref> and is considered to be an important technical reference<ref>{{cite journal |last=Farkas,| first=George."|title=Comments on Moran: Learning by Doing or Learning by Studying the History of Statistics? A Response to "The Sociology of Teaching Graduate Statistics." |journal=[[Teaching Sociology]] |volume=33, no. |issue=3 (|year=2005): |pages=272-74.{{ndash}}274 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4127587.}}</ref><ref>http://documentation.statsoft.com/STATISTICAHelp.aspx?path{{cite web |url=SEPATH/Sepath/Examples/Example6FactorAnalysiswithanInterceptVariable</ref><ref>https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63347/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_introcalis_sect011.htm |title=Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling with Latent Variables: Some Important PROC CALIS Features :: SAS/STAT(R) 9.22 User's Guide |website=[[SAS Institute]] |accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref>. It is also held to be a classic textbook on the topic<ref>{{cite journal |last=Matsueda, |first=Ross L. |title=Reviewed Work: Structural Equations with Latent Variables. by Kenneth A. Bollen |journal=[[American Journal of Sociology]] |volume=96, no. |issue=6 (|year=1991): |pages=1553-555.{{ndash}}1555 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781918}}</ref><ref>*{{cite journal |first=Clifford C. |last=Clogg.(1991).|authorlink=Clifford ContemporaryClogg Sociology,|title=Reviewed 20(1),Work: 156-158.Structural RetrievedEquations fromwith http://wwwLatent Variables.jstor.org/stable/2072165</ref><ref>DeArcangelis,by GiuseppeKenneth A. JournalBollen of|year=1991 Applied|journal=[[Contemporary EconometricsSociology]] 8, no.|volume=20 |issue=1 (1993): 111-13.|pages=156{{ndash}}158 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2285116.2072165}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Zvoch, |first=Keith."|title=Modern Quantitative Methods for Evaluation Science: Recommendations for Essential Methodological Texts." |journal=[[American Journal of Evaluation]] |volume=35, no. |issue=3 (|year=2014): |pages=430-{{ndash}}440 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1098214013514128}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Rigdon,| first=Edward E. "|title=Demonstrating the effects of unmodeled random measurement error." |journal=Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal |volume=1, no. |issue=4 (|year=1994): |pages=375-{{ndash}}380 |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10705519409539986}}</ref> and has been cited over 25,000 times on [[Google Scholar]].{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
{{quote |text=Bollen’s text, ''Structural Equations with Latent Variables'', represents an authoritative account of covariance structure modeling developments from the perspective of a sociologist who has made important contributions to both the psychometric and sociological literatures on these models. |author=J. S. Tanaka (1990)<ref>{{cite journal|first=J. S. |last=Tanaka |title=Book Review: Structural Equations with Latent Variables |journal=[[Applied Psychological Measurement]] |volume=14 |issue=2 |date=June 1990 |pages=213{{ndash}}215 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014662169001400212}}</ref>}}
