On the Use of Path Analysis and Related Procedures for the Investigation of Ecological Problems

Abstract

C) and, based on that assumption, partitioned relationships among different pathways. In this original form, path analysis was not a simultaneous method (in the Smith et al. (1997) recently drew attention to some pit- sense that all parameters were estimated simultaneously) falls that can arise when trying to predict the responses nor did it include overall tests of model fit to data. In the of experimental manipulations from nonexperimental early 1970s, more general procedures were developed for