NCJ Number
52004
Editor(s)
A S GOLDBERGER,
O D DUNCAN
Date Published
1973
Length
373 pages
Annotation
ARTICLES CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK ARE REVISIONS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT A 1970 CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS FOR APPLICATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SYSTEM RESEARCH.
Abstract
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS REPRESENT THE FIELDS OF ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIOLOGY. TOPICAL INTERESTS RANGED FROM OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY, EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, CONGRESSIONAL VOTING, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION TO MACROECONOMIC POLICY. THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS WERE COVERED AT THE CONFERENCE: IDENTIFICATION, PARAMETER ESTIMATION, AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN RECURSIVE SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT MODELS FOR CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE VARIABLES; THE IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM FOR STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS WITH UNMEASURED VARIABLES; A GENERAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A LINEAR STRUCTURAL EQUATION SYSTEM; A SIMPLE MODIFICATION OF THE TWO-STAGE LEAST-SQUARES PROCEDURE FOR UNDERSIZED SAMPLES; EFFICIENT ESTIMATION IN OVERIDENTIFIED MODELS; CROSS-LAGGED AND SYNCHRONOUS COMMON FACTORS IN PANEL DATA; DIAGNOSING INDICATOR ILLS IN MULTIPLE INDICATOR MODELS; RATIO VARIABLES AND PATH MODELS; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS IN THE PROCESS OF OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT; DISAGGREGATING A SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATION, INCOME, AND ABILITY; CENSUS DATA; AND SENATE VOTING (PROBLEMS OF SCALING AND FUNCTIONAL FORM). REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. (DEP)