ABSTRACT
In this chapter and the next we consider a number of different applications of path and structural models. This serves two purposes. First, it gives some sense of various ways in which these methods can be employed, as well as practice in applying and interpreting them. Second, it introduces additional concepts and techniques useful in dealing with path and structural models, both in general and in some important special cases. One caution: Several of the examples in this and the following chapters are classics from the SEM literature that are included for their pedagogical clarity rather than as ideal exemplars of power, sample size, or measurement technique. You might find it instructive to apply the power calculations of the preceding chapter to a few of them.
