Logic of Causal Order

1. Auflage 1985
ISBN: 978-0-8039-2553-3
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 72 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 106 g

Reihe: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences

Social scientists routinely draw conclusions about cause and effect from their data. This book spells out the pre-statistical assumptions of multivariate research and explains in nonmathematical terms: the concepts of causal direction and system order; direct, indirect, and spurious statistical effects; signs and the sign rule; rules for introducing control variables, elaboration and explanation, "effects analysis," and path analysis. The book is not statistical in the sense of developing specific statistical tools. Rather, it explains the prestatistical assumptions required, whatever the technique. The importance of substantive knowledge about the "real world" is stressed, and the myth that causal problems can be solved by statistical calculations alone is repeatedly challenged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, James A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Using the Logic
The Costs of Being Wrong
Summary

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, James A
Professor of mathematics