Causal modeling

Causal modeling

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asher, Herbert B. (Author)
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. Sage Publications ©1976.
Series:Quantitative applications in the social sciences ser. no. 07-003
Subjects:
Social sciences > Mathematical models.
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Overview
  • Two uses of causal modeling
  • Causal theorizing and problem formulation
  • Causal data analysis
  • The notion of of causality
  • Definitions and notation
  • 2. The work of Simon and Blalock
  • Overview
  • Simon and spurious correlation
  • The Simon-Blalock technique
  • The basic technique
  • Assumptions of the Simon-Blalock technique
  • Cost-benefits analysis of the Simon-Blalock technique
  • 3. Recursive and nonrecursive path estimation
  • Recursive path analysis
  • Obtaining the path estimates
  • Advantages of path analysis
  • Substantive application of path analysis
  • The formal interpretation of path coefficient
  • Overidentification in recursive models
  • Additional problems in path analysis
  • Identification and nonrecursive estimation
  • An intuitive look at identification
  • Identification in recursive systems
  • Identification in nonrecursive systems
  • Nonrecursive estimation and levels of identification
  • Summation
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Some additional concerns
  • Measurement error
  • Treating ordinal data as interval
  • Summation.