Cause and correlation in biology : a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations, and causal inference /
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 conduc...
| Основен автор: | Shipley, Bill, 1960- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY. USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77884 |
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Print version::
Cause and correlation in biology. |
Съдържание:
- 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.