Causal modeling - Asher, Herbert B. (Beverly Hills, Calif. Sage Publications, 1976)
1. Introduction -- Overview -- Two uses of causal modeling -- Causal theorizing and problem formulation -- Causal data analysis -- The notion of of causality -- Definitions and notation -- 2. The work of Simon and Blalock -- Overview -- Simon and spurious correlation -- The Simon-Blalock technique -- The basic technique -- Assumptions of the Simon-Blalock technique -- Cost-benefits analysis of the Simon-Blalock technique -- 3. Recursive and nonrecursive path estimation -- Recursive path analysis -- Obtaining the path estimates -- Advantages of path analysis -- Substantive application of path analysis -- The formal interpretation of path coefficient -- Overidentification in recursive models -- Additional problems in path analysis -- Identification and nonrecursive estimation -- An intuitive look at identification -- Identification in recursive systems -- Identification in nonrecursive systems -- Nonrecursive estimation and levels of identification -- Summation -- 4. Conclusions -- Some additional concerns -- Measurement error -- Treating ordinal data as interval -- Summation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-75).
Keywords: Social sciences -- Mathematical models; Social sciences -- Statistical methods