Path analysis (statistics) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_analysis_(statistics)Typically, path models consist of independent and dependent variables depicted graphically by boxes or rectangles. Variables that are independent variables, and not dependent variables, are called 'exogenous'. Graphically, these exogenous variable boxes lie at outside edges of the model and have only single-headed arrows exiting from them. No single-headed arrows point at exogenous variables. Variables that are solely dependent variables, or are both independent an…
Introduction to Path Analysis
https://psych.unl.edu/psycrs/942/q2/path.pdfIntroduction to Path Analysis • Ways to “think about” path analysis • Path coefficients • A bit about direct and indirect effects • What path analysis can and can’t do for you… • Measured vs. manifested the “when” of variables • About non-recursive cause in path models • Some ways to improve a path analysis model