Statistical models and causal inference a dialogue with the social sciences / David A. Freedman ; edited by David Collier, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Philip B. Stark.

• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Editors' Introduction: Inference and Shoe Leather; Notes; Part I Statistical Modeling: Foundations and Limitations; 1 Issues in the Foundations of Statistics: Probability and Statistical Models; 2 Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments; 3 Statistical Models and Shoe Leather; Part II Studies in Political Science, Public Policy, and Epidemiology; 4 Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments; 5 On "Solutions" to the Ecological Inference Problem; 6 Rejoinder to King. 
• 7 Black Ravens, White Shoes, and Case Selection: Inference with Categorical Variables8 What is the Chance of an Earthquake?; 9 Salt and Blood Pressure: Conventional Wisdom Reconsidered; 10 The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Study in Relative Riskand Specific Causation; 11 Survival Analysis: An Epidemiological Hazard?; Part III New Developments: Progress or Regress?; 12 On Regression Adjustments in Experiments with Several Treatments; 13 Randomization Does Not Justify Logistic Regression; 14 The Grand Leap. 
• 15 On Specifying Graphical Models for Causation, and the Identification Problem16 Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores; 17 On The So-Called "Huber Sandwich Estimator" and "Robust Standard Errors"; 18 Endogeneity in Probit Response Models; 19 Diagnostics Cannot Have Much Power Against General Alternatives; Part IV Shoe Leather Revisited; 20 On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning; References and Further Reading; Index. 

• David A. Freedman presents a definitive synthesis of his approach to statistical modeling and causal inference in the social sciences.

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Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning  (sao)

Linear models (Statistics)  (LCSH)

Causation.  (LCSH)

Probabilities  (LCSH)

Social sciences  -- Statistical methods. (LCSH)

Statistik  -- metodik (sao)

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