Hi Gretel, The book Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments [eds] S.M. Scheiner and J. Grevitch has a very straight forward explanation of path analysis. There is also supplemental material at the books website that has the SAS code for running a path analysis and checking the validity of assumptions.
Hope this helps. CRJ On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Gretel Clarke <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi list, > > I am wondering if any of you know of a fairly comprehensive, but not too > lengthy statistical explanation of path analysis. I have been reading CC > Li's "Path Analysis- a primer", which I understand is the standard > reference > on the subject but am finding it long. It seems like the subject could be > handled fairly thoroughly in more concise and yet still comprehensible way, > and I am wondering if such a treatment exists. If not just for myself, I > also need to find something to recommend to a (quantitatively minded) > undergraduate on the subject, and she certainly will not have time to read > the Li book. > > I have also found there is some coverage of the subject in the Quinn and > Keough stats book, but I am wondering what else is out there. > > Thanks for any thoughts, > > Gretel Clarke > PhD student, UVM > -- Cody Johnson Post Doctoral Fellow Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK 99775 http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~cody_johnson/
