CAUSAL INFERENCE IN STATISTICS, SOCIAL, AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of th eir environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding to the outcome that would be realized if a sub ject were exposed to a particular treatment or regime. In this approach, causal effects are comparisons of such potential outcomes. The fundam...[Read more]