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Causality and Statistical Learning Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research . By Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+319. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference , 2d ed. By Judea Pearl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xix+464. Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives . By Steven A. Sloman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. …

2011; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 117; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/662659

1537-5390

Andrew Gelman,

Statistical Methods and Inference

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