Title Causality in crisis? : statistical methods and the search for causal knowledge in the social sciences / edited by Vaughn R. McKim and Stephen P. Turner

Published Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1997

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Description ix, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; vol. 4 Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values ; v. 4 Contents Introduction / Vaughn R. McKim -- I. Cause and Correlation before Causal Modeling. "Net Effects": A Short History / Stephen P. Turner. Searching for Causal Relations in Economic Statistics: Reflections from History / Mary S. Morgan -- II. Causal Modeling and Causal Inference: Can the Former Justify the Latter? The Regression Method of Causal Inference and a Dilemma Confronting This Method / Clifford C. Clogg and Adamantios Haritou. From Association to Causation via Regression / David A. Freedman. Reply to Freedom / Peter Spirtes and Richard Scheines. Rejoinder to Spirtes and Scheines / David A. Freedman -- III. New Foundations for Causal Inference? An Introduction to Causal Inference / Richard Scheines. A Review of Recent Work on the Foundations of Causal Inference / Clark Glymour. A Critical Appraisal of Causal Discovery Algorithms / Paul Humphreys. Causal Models, Probabilities, and Invariance / James Woodward Representations and Misrepresentations: Reply to Humphreys and Woodward / Clark Glymour -- IV. Putting Problems about Causal Inference in Perspective. The Role of Construct Validity in Causal Generalization: The Concept of Total Causal Inference Error / Larry V. Hedges. What Is a Causal Structure? / Nancy Cartwright. The Big Broad Issues in Society and Social History: Application of a Probabilistic Perspective / Stanley Lieberson Notes Essays derived from presentations at the conference held in October 1993 at the University of Notre Dame Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index Subject Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Congresses. Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author McKim, Vaughn R. Turner, Stephen P., 1951- LC no. 95043072 ISBN 0268008132 (alk. paper)

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