Causal modeling
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Resource Type: | Kitap |
Dil: | English |
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Beverly Hills, Calif.
Sage Publications
©1976.
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Seri Bilgileri: | Quantitative applications in the social sciences
ser. no. 07-003 |
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İçindekiler:
- 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.