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Confounding in Causal Inference

Confounding in Causal Inference

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 3838335392
ISBN13: 9783838335391
Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Pub
Published: Apr 9 2010
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Causal inference is an important but controversial topic in the social sciences in that it is difficult to statistically control for all possible confounding variables. To address this concern, this monograph introduces a reference distribution of the confounding that is the product of two dependent correlation coefficients and illustrates how to use the reference distribution to investigate the robustness of a cause inference to the impact of a confounding variable. The methodology discussed in this monograph would also allow for multiple partial causes in the complex social phenomena under study, so as to inform causal inferences in the social sciences from statistical linear models.

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