Brian -
Stata has a command for two-stage and three-stage least squares (reg3) and
a user-written command for path analysis (pathreg). If you are looking for
a maximum likelihood method however, you need to look to LISREL, EQS, etc.
Sarah
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ado/analysis/pathreg.hlp:
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help for pathreg
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path analysis using ols regression
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pathreg (dv1 varlist1) [ (dv2 varlist2) (dv3 varlist3) (...) ]
Description
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pathreg is a convience command that allows the user to specify all of the
equations in a path analysis model.
Warning
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pathreg does not do any checks to determine that the path analysis model
meets
all of the requirement and assumptions of path analysis. This matter is
left up
to the user.
Example
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. pathreg (math female)(read math female)(write read math female)
--On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:57 PM -0600 Brian Uzzi
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
Is there a way to do path analysis, structural equation modeling, or P*
models in STATA?
Thanks,
Brian
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Sarah A. Mustillo, Ph.D
Center for Developmental Epidemiology
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
Box 3454
Durham NC 27710
919 687-4686 x234
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