Cause and correlation in biology : a user's guide to path analysis, structural equations and causal inference

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Author(s): Hernan M.A., Robins J.M.
Edition: book draft
Year: 2019

Language: English
Tags: Biometry.;BiomeĢtrie.;Biometrie.;Statistische methoden.;Biostatistik

Content: Preface
1. Preliminaries
2. From cause to correlation and back
3. Sewall Wright, path analysis and d-separation
4. Path analysis and maximum likelihood
5. Measurement error and latent variables
6. The structural equations model
7. Multigroup models, multilevel models, and corrections for non-independence of observations
8. Exploration, discovery and equivalence
Index.