ABSTRACT
Path models are structural equation models that consist of complex paths between latent and/or observed variables, possibly including both direct and indirect effects, and reciprocal effects between variables. As mentioned in Chapter 14, often a distinction is made between the structural and the measurement part of a model. The measurement model specifies how the latent factors are measured by the observed variables, and the structural model specifies the structure of the relationships between the theoretical constructs, which may be latent factors or observed variables in the model.
