OIT Software Licensing is evaluating the current and prospective usage of SPSS Amos.
IBM® SPSS® Amos gives you the power to easily perform structural equation modeling to build models with more accuracy than with standard multivariate statistics techniques.
With SPSS Amos, you can specify, estimate, assess, and present your model in an intuitive interface to show hypothesized relationships among variables. Alternatively, SPSS Amos offers a non-graphical method to specify models. SPSS Amos is the perfect tool for a variety of purposes.
A site license for SPSS Amos has been requested through our new software evaluation request form (http://oit.duke.edu/comp-print/software/request/it_request.php) for central funding/distribution, and we put together a wiki with some information on the software and some of the purchase options.
If your department currently uses this software or if you are interested in using this software or have considered purchasing this before, we invite you to visit the wiki and comment on it. The information that we collect in this manner will help us determine whether or not central funding and distribution would be beneficial to the Duke community.
Wiki: https://wiki.duke.edu/display/OITSLP/SPSS+Amos
Summary of wiki:
For the cost of about 10 Amos licenses per year, Duke could get an unlimited use license. This has been requested in the distant past, but usage and purchasing statistics are unknown and it has not been determined which distribution model makes the most sense for Duke if a site license is in demand.
