Employing Nominal Variables, Induced Variables, and Block Variables in Path Analyses

1 November 1972

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research

Vol. 1 (2) , 147-173
https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417200100201

Abstract

In a variety of problems, it is desirable to have a single coefficient summarize the causal effects of a set of variables when other variables are controlled. The "sheaf coefficient" presented here does this and can be employed meaningfully in the context of path analysis models.

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