Cause and correlation in biology: a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations, and causal inference
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Main Author: Shipley, Bill (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-315) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 317 pages)
ISBN:0511017723
0511152558
0511173482
0521791537
9780511017728
9780511152559
9780511173486

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