ABSTRACT
Chapter 1: Path Models in Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis Scientists dealing with behavior, especially those who observe it occurring in its natural settings, rarely have the luxury of the simple bivariate experiment, in which a single independent variable is manipulated and the consequences observed for a single dependent variable. Even those scientists who think they do are often mistaken: The variables they directly manipulate and observe are typically not the ones of real theoretical interest but are merely some convenient variables acting as proxies or indexes for them. A full experimental analysis would again turn out to be multivariate, with a number of alternative experimental manipulations on the one side, and a number of alternative response measures on the other.
