The analytical procedure of path analysis is described in terms of its use in nonexperimental settings in the social sciences. The description assumes a moderate statistical background on the part of the reader. (JKS)

Taking multidimensional life satisfaction as the basic premise of this study, a four-equation multiple regression model was constructed for its prediction. Results indicated that the pattern of regressor influence varied greatly between equations, providing fairly specific evidence on a number of previously espoused hypotheses. (Author)

Multivariate selection can be represented as a linear transformation in a geometric framework. In this note this approach is extended to describe the effects of selection on regression analysis and to adjust for the effects of selection using the inverse of the linear transformation. (Author/BW)

Multiple regression analysis (MRA) may be used when both continuous and categorical variables are included as independent research variables. The use of MRA with categorical variables involves dummy coding, that is, assigning zeros and ones to levels of categorical variables. Caution is urged in results interpretation. (Author/CH)

This note proposes an alternative implementation of the regression method which should be slightly faster than the principal components methods for estimating missing data. (RC)

Several procedures are outlined for replacing missing values in multivariate analyses by regression values obtained in various ways, and for adjusting coefficients (such as factor score coefficients) when data are missing. None of the procedures are complex or expensive. (Author)

It is shown that in the special case of just two criterion groups the predictor variables may be equivalently ordered (with respect to contribution to prediction or discrimination) by the univariate F-ratios and by estimates of the predictor versus the linear discriminant function correlations. (Author)

Copies of a complete multiple regression computer program (incorporating the modified Gauss-Jordan procedure) and instructions for its use may be found in the senior author's recent book, The Funstat Package in Fortran IV,'' Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Authors/CB)

Major objective in this study was the structuring of a predictive model that would assess combinations of variables that most effectively and parsimoniously measure and forecast college success. (Author)

Benefit-cost relationships are estimated for many subgroups of disabled persons. (BH)

Results of this study support the view that ideology formation is a function of both personality and social system factors. (Authors/MB)

This method of generating multivariate data differs from previous techniques in that it uses Crout factorization to develop the desired variance-covariance matrix. (Author/CK)

Tests hypotheses on educators' orientations toward pupil control. (Author)