Re: st: Whether the dichotomous variable be treated as endogenous variable in the path analysis and how?(help)

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 12:19 AM 5/13/2007, Yan Cheng wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
> I have a a dichotomous variable as endogenous variable in the path
> analysis, sex(0/1), I wrote the following syntax, is it right? Could
> you please provide me some advances?
>
> pathreg (knowledge exogenous_vars) /*
> */ (attitude knowledge exegenous_vars) /*
> */ (sex attitude knowledge exogenous_vars)
I am not sure if you are asking a technical question about syntax or 
a substantive question about how to model something.  If the question 
is technical, You can always try the above and see if it works.  It 
looks like it will run but it is easy to miss something.

More substantively, if sex is 0 = male and 1 = female, I don't see 
why it would be endogenous.  But, perhaps sex stands for attitudes or 
behaviors instead.  Also, since sex is a dichotomy, I would think 
you'd want to use logit or probit instead.

If you can


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