Structural Equation Modeling: Theory and Applications in Forest Management

Table 2

Correlation matrix and standard deviation (SD) of the nine observed variables.

	LSHERB	UNDER	FLITTER	CLITTER	TREE	ln(TPH) × 10	ASPECT × 10	QMD	AGE
LSHERB	1.000
UNDER	0.494	1.000
FLITTER	0.167	0.232	1.000
CLITTER	−0.036	−0.097	−0.688	1.000
TREE	−0.324	−0.366	0.123	−0.043	1.000
ln(TPH) × 10	−0.396	−0.379	−0.110	0.116	0.496	1.000
ASPECT × 10	0.280	0.344	0.124	−0.053	−0.030	−0.038	1.000
QMD	0.343	0.272	0.127	−0.120	−0.172	−0.804	−0.028	1.000
AGE	0.395	0.098	0.044	0.064	−0.099	−0.380	−0.037	0.507	1.000
SD	17.541	32.168	9.064	7.262	16.294	8.042	7.024	19.396	40.992