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Statistical models and causal inference : a dialogue with the social sciences
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Statistical models and causal inference : a dialogue with the social sciences

Author: David Freedman; David Collier; Jasjeet Singh Sekhon; Philip B Stark
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"David A. Freedman presents here a definitive synthesis of his approach to causal inference in the social sciences. He explores the foundations and limitations of statistical modeling, illustrating basic arguments with examples from political science, public policy, law, and epidemiology. Freedman maintains that many new technical approaches to statistical modeling constitute not progress, but regress. Instead, he  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Freedman; David Collier; Jasjeet Singh Sekhon; Philip B Stark
ISBN: 9780521195003 0521195004 9780521123907 0521123909
OCLC Number: 457770262
Description: xvi, 399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Editor's introduction: inference and shoe leather --
Statistical modeling: foundations and limitations --
issues in the foundations of statistics : probability and statistical models --
Statistical assumptions as empirical commitements --
Statistical models and shoe leather --
Studies in political science, public policy, and epidemiology --
Methods for Census 2000 and statistical adjustments --
On "solutions" to the ecological inference problem --
Rejoinder to king --
Black ravens, white shoes, and case selection : inference with categorical variables --
What is the chance of an earthquake --
Salt and blood pressure : conventional wisdom reconsidered --
The Swine Flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome : a case study in relative risk and specific causation --
Survival analysis : an epidemiological hazard? --
New developments : progress or regress? --
On regression adjustments in experiments with several treatments --
Randomization does not justify logistic regression --
The grand leap --
On specifying graphical models for causation, and the identification problem --
Weighting regressions by propensity scores --
On the so-called "Huber Sandwich Estimator" and "Robust Standard Errors" --
Endogeneity in probit response models --
Diagnostics cannot have much power against general alternatives --
Shoe leather revisited --
On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning.
Responsibility: David A. Freedman ; edited by David Collier, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Philip B. Stark.
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