Path Analysis

[tsegaye molla]

How could I draw a diagram for path model using STATA 12? Help me because I found difficulty in using AMOS SPSS 16 to do so? So, could there be a way for drawing path diagram using STATA 12?

[Maarten Buis]

If you type in Stata help sem_gui and read and follow the links therein you should be able to find what you want.

[wbuchanan]

If you click on Statistics -> SEM -> model building and estimation it should launch the SEM Builder where you could create your path diagram.

[Marcos Almeida]

You may just type in the Commmand window

. sembuilder

and get what you want.

[tsegaye molla]

"Cost efficiency'' vs ''Economic efficiency"?????

1. Are the terms ''cost efficiency'' and ''economic efficiency'' the same in frontier analysis?
(i.e., are "cost efficiency" estimates estimated by using cost function in frontier be taken as "economic efficiency" estimates?)
2. EE = TE x AE. But how could we estimate Allocative Efficiency(AE) from frontier analysis?

Thank you in-advance for your scholastic assistance!

[wbuchanan]

@tsegaye molia you should post your question in a separate thread and you may also want to provide more context since it is easy to see how the terms could be used in similar and dissimilar ways across disciplines.