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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Biometry.
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Correlation (Statistics)
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Causation.
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biometrics.
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correlation.
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Biometry.
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Causation.
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Correlation (Statistics)
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0511046812 |
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9780511046810 |
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0511031548 |
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9780511031540 |
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9780511605949 |
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0511605943 |
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9780511017728 |
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0511017723 |
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9780521791533 |
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0521791537 |
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9780521529211 |
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0521529212 |
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