Table of direct, indirect, and total effects

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asdocx offers a convenient way to export tables of total, direct, and indirect effects to MS Word, Excel, LaTeX, or HTML. asdocx compiles various statistics from the stored matrices and creates a complete table including coefficients, standard errors, z-statistics, and p-values. The command syntax is given below:

Syntax

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* sem model should be run first
asdocx estat teffects, [effects(te de ie) ///
title(table_title) dec() dect() decp() ///
notes(table_notes) replace label tzok]

Options enclosed in square brackets [ ] are optional. If they are not used, a table of total effects will be created.

Options

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effects() – Specifies the types of effects to report. You can specify all effects like this: effects(te de ie), or a single effect like this: effects(te), where:

te: Total effects
de: Direct effects
ie: Indirect effects

title(table_title) – Table title displayed at the top of the table.

notes(table_notes) – Table notes displayed at the bottom of the table.

dec() – Sets the number of decimal places for coefficients. The default is 3.

dect() – Sets the number of decimal places for z-statistics. The default is 2.

decp() – Sets the number of decimal places for p-values. The default is 4.

replace – Replaces any existing table. The default behavior is to append.

label – Displays variable labels instead of variable names.

tzok – Displays an equal number of decimal places, even if trailing values are zeros.

As noted above, estat teffects is valid only after a sem model has been run. If you run the command directly, you will receive the error:

last estimates not found

 

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Let’s use an example of a sem model that is given in its help file.

* Load example dataset
webuse sem_sm1, clear

* Run the sem model
sem (r_occasp <- f_occasp r_intel r_ses f_ses) ///
    (f_occasp <- r_occasp f_intel f_ses r_ses), ///
     cov(e.r_occasp*e.f_occasp)

* Estimate and export the effects to Word file
* Without using the effects() option, the default of 'te' (total effects) is used
asdocx estat teffects

 

Example 2: Report all effects

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To report selected or all effects, use the effects() option.

* Load another dataset
use https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/data/hsbdemo, clear

sem (read <- write math ses socst ) ///
    (science <- read math awards ) ///
    (write <- math read awards )

asdocx estat teffects, effects(te de ie) tzok replace