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A User's Guide to Path Analysis

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A User's Guide to Path Analysis

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Written for graduate level students in advanced statistics, this handbook offers a comprehensive and practical overview of path analysis. A User's Guide to Path Analysis contains:
• Definition and graphical illustrations of basic terms and concepts
• Illustration of causal diagrams with emphasis on variable positioning, path symbols, error terms, missing arrows, and feedback loops
• In-depth discussion of assumptions underlying path analysis
•Discussion of causal model estimation with illustrations
•Practical research questions for interpreting a path model
•Instructions on how to read a path diagram, and how to use the SPSS computer program and interpret the results
•Suggestions for what to include when writing up or interpreting findings

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Chapter 4 1. Introduction
Chapter 5 2. Definition of Basic Terms and Concepts
Chapter 6 3. Constructing Causal Diagrams
Chapter 7 4. Assumptions
Chapter 8 5. Causal Model Estimation
Chapter 9 6. Types of Research Questions in Path Model
Chapter 10 7. Useful Information in Applying Path Analysis
Chapter 11 References

Product details

Published Jul 28 2006
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 168
ISBN 9780761832317
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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