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Author Shipley, Bill, 1960-

Title Cause and correlation in biology : a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations and causal inference / Bill Shipley
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Preliminaries; 2 From cause to correlation and back; 3 Sewall Wright, path analysis and d-separation; 4 Path analysis and maximum likelihood; 5 Measurement error and latent variables; 6 The structural equations model; 7 Nested models and multilevel models; 8 Exploration, discovery and equivalence; Appendix; References; Index
Summary Written in a jargon-free, conversational style, this book explores the relationship between correlation and causation. It presents a series of statistical methods that can test, and potentially discover, cause-effect relationships between variables in situations in which it is not possible to conduct controlled experiments
Notes Originally published: 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biometry.
Correlation (Statistics)
Causation.
biometrics.
correlation.
Biometry.
Causation.
Correlation (Statistics)
Form Electronic book
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