Abstract
This paper discusses the use of unmeasured variables in path models. Problems of estimation of the path coefficients of a path model are explored when unmeasured variables are utilized as both causes and effects (intervening variables). The paper concludes with a discussion of conditions for the identification of a path model containing unmeasured variables and some remarks on the substantive interpretation of unmeasured variables.
Keywords
EstimationStatisticsPath coefficientEconometricsMathematicsPath (computing)Path analysis (statistics)EconomicsComputer science
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- 1970
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- article
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 506-511
- Citations
- 39
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Kenneth C. Land
(1970).
On the Estimation of Path Coefficients for Unmeasured Variables from Correlations Among Observed Variables.
Social Forces
, 48
(4)
, 506-511.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/48.4.506
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- 10.1093/sf/48.4.506