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Download full textWolfle, Lee M. – 1980
An extension of the methods of path analysis to include studies of categorical data was described and exemplified in a causal study of college dropouts. The usual models and methods of causal (path) analysis were designed for the study of quantitative variables and are not appropriate when the variables under investigation are categorical.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Data, Data Analysis, Dropouts
