Thank you very much to all those who responded to my question. I'll take
your responses to my Prof. and see what he wants... I am quite certain
that I'll be doing some Structural Eq. research for the next few weeks.
Thanks again. Best, Ben.

>>> [log in to unmask] 09/14/06 11:33 AM >>>
Hi All:

I am having trouble determining if the below problem violates any
statistical assumptions. Pardon the simplistic notation.

Eq. 1
DV1=Dem.+IV2 +IV3+IV4+u

Eq. 2
DV2(which is IV2 in first equation)=Dem.+IV5...IV7+u

Eq.3
DV3(which is IV3 is first equation)=Dem.+IV8...IV10+u

Eq. 4
DV4(which is IV4 in the first equation)=Dem.+IV11...IV13+u


Basically, Democracy is an IV in the first equation, but is also used as
an IV in the other equations (along with various other different/new
IVs) to explain the IVs in the first equation.

Again, does this problem violate any statistical properties/assumptions,
and if so what are the appropriate fixes? It seems somewhat similar to a
simultaneous equations problem, but I don't think it is since there are
no (non)recursive relationships.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Ben Appel
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Ph.D. Student
University of Maryland

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