Cause and correlation in biology : a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations, and causal inference /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shipley, Bill, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY. USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Biometry.
Biometry > methods
Biometry
Biométrie.
biometrics.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biometry > methods.
Biostatistik
Biometrie
Biometrie.
Statistische methoden.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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