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The Logic of Causal Order

The Logic of Causal Order

Davis, James a.

Paperback

Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Book 55

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0803925530
ISBN13: 9780803925533
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Nov 1 1985
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.42
Language: English
Social scientists routinely draw conclusions about cause and effect from their data. This book spells out the pre-statistical assumptions of multivariate research and explains in nonmathematical terms: the concepts of causal direction and system order; direct, indirect, and spurious statistical effects; signs and the sign rule; rules for introducing control variables, elaboration and explanation, effects analysis, and path analysis. The book is not statistical in the sense of developing specific statistical tools. Rather, it explains the prestatistical assumptions required, whatever the technique. The importance of substantive knowledge about the real world is stressed, and the myth that causal problems can be solved by statistical calculations alone is repeatedly challenged.

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