Abstract
Path analysis was invented by the geneticist Sewall Wright (1921a, 1934, 1960, 1968), and has been widely applied to problems in genetics and the behavioral sciences. It is a technique which allows us to represent, in diagrammatic form, linear ‘structural’ models and hence derive predictions for the variances and covariances (the covariance structure) of our variables under that model. The books by Kenny (1979), Li (1975), or Wright (1968) supply good introductory treatments of path analysis, and general descriptions of structural equation modeling can be found in Bollen (1989) and Loehlin (1987). In this chapter we provide only the basic background necessary to understand models used in the genetic analyses presented in this text.
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Neale, M.C., Cardon, L.R. (1992). Path Analysis and Structural Equations. In: Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families. NATO ASI Series, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8018-2_5
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