Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences - Hardcover

Freedman, David A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521195004 ISBN 13: 9780521195003

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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David A. Freedman presents a definitive synthesis of his approach to statistical modeling and causal inference in the social sciences.

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David A. Freedman (1938-2008) was Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a distinguished mathematical statistician whose theoretical research included the analysis of martingale inequalities, Markov processes, de Finetti's theorem, consistency of Bayes estimators, sampling, the bootstrap, and procedures for testing and evaluating models of methods for causal inference. Freedman published widely on the application - and misapplication - of statistics in works within a variety of social sciences, including epidemiology, demography, political science, public policy, and law. He emphasized exposing and checking the assumptions that underlie standard methods, as well as understanding how those methods behave when the assumptions are false - for example, how regression models behave when fitted to data from randomized experiments. He had a remarkable talent for integrating carefully honed statistical arguments with compelling empirical applications and illustrations. Freedman was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2003 he received the National Academy of Science's John J. Carty Award, for his 'profound contributions to the theory and practice of statistics'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521195004
• ISBN 13: 9780521195003
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Collier David, Sekhon Jasjeet S.
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