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Structural Equation Models pp 9–22Cite as

A Brief History of Structural Equation Models

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Though structural equation models today are usually associated with soft problems in the social sciences, they had their origin in the natural sciences—specifically biology. Europe’s nineteenth-century scholars were challenged to make sense of the diverse morphologies observed during an age of explorations, in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as at home. In this period, new species of plants and animals were transplanted, domesticated, eaten, and bred at an unprecedented rate. An American ultimately provided one statistical tool that allowed scholars to build a science out of their diverse observations.

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Westland, J.C. (2015). A Brief History of Structural Equation Models. In: Structural Equation Models. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16507-3_2

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