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Textbook 1996uch as LISREL (Joreskog and Sorbom, 1993a,b) and EQS (Bentler, 1993; Bentler and Wu, 1993) handle a variety of ordinary least squares regression designs as well as complex structural equation models involving variables with arbitrary distributions. Unfortunately, many students and researchers hesita

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Economic Burden and Practical Considerationsd (2) to discuss the multivariate method of path analysis as a way to estimate direct, indirect, and total structural effects within an a priori specified structural model. Throughout the chapter, examples based on data from a sociological study serve as an introduction to the LISREL and EQS program

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15126-3ion of latent variables—as previously introduced in the context of confirmatory factor analysis—into path models relaxes this assumption and allows for the estimation of direct and indirect structural effects between variables or constructs that are not directly observable but, instead, are indicated by some imperfect observable measures.

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Textbook 1996ettings, especially in the fields of sociology, psychology, and education. Although its roots can be traced back to the first half of this century, when Spearman (1904) developed factor analysis and Wright (1934) introduced path analysis, it was not until the 1970s that the works by Karl Joreskog an

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Linear Regression and Classical Path Analysis,mply as a set of simultaneous regression equations. If the statistical assumptions of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression are met, standard OLS estimation as available in general-purpose statistical computer programs such as SPSS, SAS, or BMDP can be used to estimate the structural parameters in

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis,ucts. For example, variables used in the regression and path analytical models of Chapter 1, such as father’s education (.), degree aspirations (.), and highest held academic degree (.), can be thought of as imperfect indicators of the latent constructs parents’ socioeconomic status (.), general aca

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General Structural Equation Modeling,1) that involve latent variables (discussed in Chapter 2). Even though classical path analysis has important advantages over conventional univariate or multivariate regression (e.g., the estimation of direct and indirect structural effects), one major disadvantage is that a priori hypothesized struc