Path analysis
Análisis del camino
- Date
- 1920 · confidence high
- Place
- Washington D.C., United States
- Credited to
- Sewall Wright
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A statistical method devised by geneticist Sewall Wright to describe directed causal dependencies among variables through path diagrams, a forerunner of structural equation modeling.
What it led to
- Structural equation modeling (SEM)
- Quantitative genetics and heritability estimation
- Causal analysis in the social sciences