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Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference

By Bill Shipley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521529212, 9780521529211
Open Library ID
OL7744744M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1827774 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
332\330
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Bill Shipley explores the logical and methodological relationships between correlation and causation. He presents a series of statistical methods that can test, and potentially discover, cause-effect relationships between variables in situations where it is not possible to conduct randomized, or experimentally controlled, studies. Many of these methods are quite new and most are generally unknown to biologists. Besides describing how to conduct these statistical tests, he also puts the methods into historical context and explains when they can and cannot justifiably be used to test causal claims. Hb ISBN (2000); 0-521-79153-7

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