Introduction to Our Authors

To our authors.

SHORTLY after articulating the mission statement for ANESTHESIOLOGY a couple of years ago, the Editorial Board turned to the question of who our audiences were and how we could better serve them. Readers, of course, are our chief audience, and I will write next month about our efforts to better serve our readers. But to meet our mission, which is to advance our medical specialty by promoting ne...

Introducing our Authors.

Book Introduction by the Authors

Finding our way: an introduction to path analysis.

Path analysis is an extension of multiple regression. It goes beyond regression in that it allows for the analysis of more complicated models. In particular, it can examine situations in which there are several final dependent variables and those in which there are "chains" of influence, in that variable A influences variable B, which in turn affects variable C. Despite its previous name of "ca...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics