Table of direct, indirect, and total effects

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asdocx offers a convenient way to export the table 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 of coefficient, standard errors, s-statistics, and p-values. The syntax of the command is given below:

Syntax

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* sem model should be run first then

asdocx estat teffects, [effects(te de ie) title(table_title) dec() 
       dect() decp() notes(table_notes) replace label tzok]

Option enclosed in [ ] are optional. Therefore, if they are not used, the total effects tables will be created.

Options

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effects() –  is used to specify the type of effects that need to be report. We can specify all like this effects(te de ie) or one like this effects(te), where :

te : total effects
de: direct effects
ie: indirect effects.

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

notes(table_notes) : Table notes reported at the bottom of the table.

dec() – To set decimal points. Default is 3, that reports three decimal points.

dect() – To set the decimal points of the z-statistics. Default is 2.

decp() – To set the decimal points of the p-value values. Default is 4.

replace – To replace any existing table. Default is append.

label – Report variable labels instead of variable names.

tzok – Report equal number of decimal points, even if trailing values are zeros.

 

As noted above, estate teffects is valid only the sem model is already run. If you directly run the command, you shall get an error of

last estimates not found

 

Example 1: Base case

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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 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