Abstract
The Method of path coefficients was suggested a number of years ago (Wright 1918, more fully 1920, 1921), as a flexible means of relating the correlation coefficients between variables in a multiple system to the functional relations among them. The method has been applied in quite a variety of cases. It seems desirable now to make a restatement of the theory and to review the types of application, especially as there has been a certain amount of misunderstanding both of purpose and of procedure.
Keywords
MathematicsPath coefficientStatisticsApplied mathematicsEconometricsPath analysis (statistics)
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Sewall Wright
(1934).
The Method of Path Coefficients.
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics
, 5
(3)
, 161-215.
https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177732676
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- 10.1214/aoms/1177732676