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Employing Nominal Variables, Induced Variables, and Block Variables in Path Analyses

Department of Sociology University of North Carolina

In a variety of problems, it is desirable to have a single coefficient summarize the causal effects of a set of variables when other variables are controlled. The "sheaf coefficient" presented here does this and can be employed meaningfully in the context of path analysis models.

Sociological Methods & Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 147-173 (1972)
DOI: 10.1177/004912417200100201


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