By Herbert I. Weisberg
A different source on making a choice on and working with bias in statistical study on causal effects
Do cellphones reason melanoma? Can a brand new curriculum raise pupil fulfillment? picking out what the genuine reasons of such difficulties are, and the way strong their results should be, are important matters in examine throughout a variety of fields of research. a few researchers are hugely skeptical of drawing causal conclusions other than in tightly managed randomized experiments, whereas others the threats posed by way of assorted assets of bias, even in much less rigorous observational reviews. Bias and Causation offers a whole remedy of the topic, organizing and clarifying the various forms of biases right into a conceptual framework. The e-book treats a number of assets of bias in comparative studies—both randomized and observational—and deals counsel on how they need to be addressed by means of researchers.
Utilizing a comparatively basic mathematical strategy, the writer develops a thought of bias that outlines the basic nature of the matter and identifies some of the resources of bias which are encountered in sleek study. The booklet starts with an advent to the research of causal inference and the similar thoughts and terminology. subsequent, an summary is equipped of the methodological matters on the center of the problems posed by way of bias. next chapters clarify the options of choice bias, confounding, intermediate causal elements, and knowledge bias in addition to the distortion of a causal influence that could outcome while the publicity and/or the end result is measured with errors. The ebook concludes with a brand new category of twenty common assets of bias and functional suggestion on how mathematical modeling and professional judgment should be mixed to accomplish the main credible causal conclusions.
Throughout the e-book, examples from the fields of drugs, public coverage, and schooling are integrated into the presentation of varied subject matters. moreover, six precise case reports illustrate concrete examples of the importance of biases in daily research.
Requiring just a simple realizing of facts and likelihood concept, Bias and Causation is a superb complement for classes on study tools and utilized records on the upper-undergraduate and graduate point. it's also a beneficial reference for working towards researchers and methodologists in numerous fields of analysis who paintings with statistical data.
This book was chosen as the 2011 Ziegel Prize Winner in Technometrics for the easiest publication reviewed via the journal.
It is additionally the winner of the 2010 PROSE Award for Mathematics from the yankee Publishers Awards for pro and Scholarly Excellence
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