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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shipley, Bill, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.