RANGKUMAN TENTANG BUKU PATH ANALYSIS (ANALISIS JALUR) BAB I KONSEP DAN PENGERTIAN Analisis jalur yang dikenal dengan path analysis dikembangkan pertama tahun 1920-an oleh seorang ahli genetika yaitu Sewall Wright (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1996; Johnson & Wichern, 1992). Path analysis diartikan oleh Bohrnstedt (1974 dalam Kusnendi, 2005:1) bahwa “a technique for estimating the effect’s a set of independent variables has on a dependent variable from a set of observed correlations, given a set of hypothesized causal asymetric relation among the variables.” Sedangkan tujuan utama path analysis adalah a method of measuring the direct influence along each separate path in such a system and thus of finding the degree to which variation of a given effect is determined by each particular cause . The method depend on the combination of knowledge of the degree of correlation among the variables in a system with such knowledge as ...