a procedure associated with multiple regression involving a diagram indicating the strength and direction of influences between several variables, enabling calculation of direct and indirect causal pathways.
(IEEE) Analysis of a computer program [source code] to identify all possible paths through the program, to detect incomplete paths, or to discover portions of the program that are not on any path.
Blizzard Tracker allows users to view the path a visitor takes from their web site's home page to and from any other page in the site. This provides an excellent means for evaluating the usability, relevance and appeal of various paths through a web site. If usage of a certain link is lower than expected, the link text or the placement on the page may need to be changed. If visitors tend to leave the site after landing on a certain page, perhaps the content or design of that page needs work.
Analyzing a visitor's or group of visitors' movement through a Web site as a way to (1) understand the processes they are performing as well as (2) optimize those paths to prevent user drop-off.
The analysis of paths that the visitors take on your website. This gives a clear idea of what your customers are searching for and at what point they leave the path or are converted.
Program analysis performed to identify all possible paths through a program, to detect incomplete paths, or to discover portions of the program that are not on any path.
A correlational procedure that divides an overall correlation between two variables into separate components or paths. For example, path analysis can help to determine whether a link between childhood temper tantrums and later occupational problems is direct or is due to some intervening link like dropping out of school.
In statistics, path analysis is a type of multiple regression analysis. The term path analysis has been used to refer to the analysis of causal models when single indicators are employed for each of the variables in the model. Other terms used to refer to this model are causal modeling, analysis of covariance structures, latent variable models, structural modeling, and structural equation modeling.
In Internet website analytics, path analysis is process of determining a sequence of pages visited in a visitor session prior to some desired event, such as the visitor purchasing an item or requesting a newsletter. The precise order of pages visited may or may not be important and may or may not be specified. In practice, this analysis is done in aggregate, ranking the paths (sequences of pages) visited prior to the desired event, by descending frequency of use.