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Statistics and Application 统计学与应用, 2018, 7(2), 90-98 Published Online April 2018 in Hans. /journal/sa /10.12677/sa.2018.72012 Structural Equation Modeling on Students’ Attitude towards Statistics 1 2 1 1 Rong Guan , Yuyin Miao , Miao Liu , Huijuan Wang 1 School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 2 School of Statistics, Renmin University, Beijing th th th Received: Mar. 15 , 2018; accepted: Mar. 28 , 2018; published: Apr. 4 , 2018 Abstract Learning attitude helps regulate learning behaviors, and has a direct influence on learning effi- ciency and learning effect. Based on the field research data of college students in a university of finance and economics, this paper constructs a structural equation model to measure students’ at- titude towards learning statistics, using the SATS questionnaire. We aim to explore the relation- ship between students’ learning attitude towards statistics, their expected achievements on statis- tics, and their mathematical ability. According to the results, students have a positive attitude to- wards statistics, but deem it difficult to learn the course. Besides, students’ mathematical ability significantly affects their attitude towards statistics. Last but not least, both learning attitude and mathematical ability have a significantly positive influence on the expected achievements on sta- tistics, and the mathematical ability contributes more. Accordingly, it needs to help students to overcome their fears of difficulties and to enhance their interests in learning statistics. Also, it is important to corre