{"id":8695,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/path_diagram\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:31","slug":"path_diagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/path_diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Path diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A technique for path analysis developed by the evolutionary biologist Sewall Wright (1895-1988), the recognized founder of path analysis, and first published in 1921. &nbsp;Its function is to display of a set of linear relationships among measured (manifest) and unmeasured (latent) variables. &nbsp;If the diagrams are drawn in complete form, all structural expectations of the model can be generated using a set of &#8216;path tracings&#8217; rules. &nbsp; There is a distinction to be made between two sorts of path diagrams. &nbsp;An input path diagram is devised first in order to plan the analysis in order to depict possible connections between according to a particular hypothesis. &nbsp;An output path diagram represents the actual outcomes of the analysis. &nbsp;In the context of discussing path analysis,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/book\/10.1002\/9781118887486\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/book\/10.1002\/9781118887486?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everitt and Dunn (1991)<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/9781118887486.ch1\/summary\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/9781118887486.ch1\/summary?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;<\/a>offer a cautionary note: &#8220;However, convincing, respectable and reasonable a path diagram &#8230; may appear, any causal inferences extracted are rarely more than a form of statistical fantasy&#8221; (p. 108).<\/p>\n<p>Everitt, B.S., &amp; Dunn, G.G. (1991). <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Applied multivariate data analysis<\/span>. London: Edward Arnold. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"path_analysis\">Path analysis<\/a>, Structural equation modelling (SEM)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technique for path analysis developed by the evolutionary biologist Sewall Wright (1895-1988), the recognized founder of path analysis, and first published in 1921. &nbsp;Its function is to display of a set of linear relationships among measured (manifest) and unmeasured (latent) variables. &nbsp;If the diagrams are drawn in complete form, all structural expectations of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/path_diagram\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Path diagram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}