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Main subject categories: • Science ‒ Experiments • Observation (Scientific method) • Inference • ProbabilitiesIn the daily news and the scientific literature, we are faced with conflicting claims about the effects caused by some treatments, behaviors, and policies. A daily glass of wine prolongs life, or so we are told. Yet we are also told that alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer and that pregnant women should abstain from drinking. Some say that raising the minimum wage decreases inequality while others say it increases unemployment. Investigators once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduces the risk of heart disease but today investigators confidently claim it raises that risk. How should we study such questions?Observation and Experiment is an introduction to causal inference from one of the field’s leading scholars. Using minimal mathematics and statistics, Paul Rosenbaum explains key concepts and methods through scientific examples that make complex ideas concrete and abstract principles accessible.Some causal questions can be studied in randomized trials in which coin flips assign individuals to treatments. But because randomized trials are not alw

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Author

Rosenbaum, Paul R

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674975576

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Computer Science