Introduction to Structural Equation Models

✍ Scribed by Otis Dudley Duncan (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 181
• Series: Studies in Population
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to Structural Equation Models prepares the reader to understand the recent sociological literature on the use of structural equation models in research, and discusses methodological questions pertaining to such models. The material in first seven chapters is almost entirely standard, with the remaining four introducing progressively more open-ended issues, seducing the reader into beginning to think for himself about the properties of models or even to suggest problems that may intrigue the advanced student

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
STUDIES IN POPULATION, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages vii-ix
1 - Preliminaries, Pages 1-8
2 - Correlation and Causation, Pages 9-24
3 - Recursive Models, Pages 25-50
4 - Structural Coefficients in Recursive Models, Pages 51-66
5 - A Just-Identified Nonrecursive Model, Pages 67-79
6 - Underidentification and the Problem of Identification, Pages 81-90
7 - Overidentification in a Nonrecursive Model, Pages 91-99
8 - Specification Error, Pages 101-112
9 - Measurement Error, Unobserved Variables, Pages 113-127
10 - Multiple Indicators, Pages 129-147
11 - Form and Substance of (Sociological) Models, Pages 149-168
References, Pages 169-173
Author Index, Pages 175-176
Subject Index, Pages 177-180