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Causal analysis in biomedicine and epidemiology : based on minimal sufficient causation / Mikel Aickin.
Holman Biotech Commons R853.S7 A335 2002
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Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks R853.S7 A335 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aickin, Mikel.
- Series:
- Biostatistics (New York, N.Y.) ; 9.
- Biostatistics : a series of references and textbooks ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Research--Statistical methods.
- Medicine.
- Epidemiology--Statistical methods.
- Epidemiology.
- Biometry.
- Causation.
- Medicine--statistics & numerical data.
- Epidemiology--statistics & numerical data.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine--statistics & numerical data.
- Epidemiology--statistics & numerical data.
- Biometry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marcel Dekker, [2002]
- Summary:
- Provides current models, tools, and examples for the formulation and evaluation of scientific hypotheses in causal terms. Introduces a new method of model parametritization. Illustrates structural equations and graphical elements for complex causal systems.
- Contents:
- 2. What Is Causation? 7
- 3. Naive Minimal Sufficient Cause 13
- 4. Events and Probabilities 21
- 5. Unitary Algebra 31
- 6. Nontrivial Implication 39
- 8. The One-Factor Model 49
- 9. Graphical Elements 59
- 10. Causations 67
- 11. Structural Equations 73
- 12. The Two-Factor Model 77
- 13. Down Syndrome Example 83
- 14. Marginalization 87
- 15. Stratification 91
- 16. Obesity Example 95
- 17. Attribution 101
- 18. Indirect Cause: Probabilities 107
- 19. Indirect Cause: Structures 113
- 20. Reversal 117
- 21. Gestational Diabetes Example 123
- 22. More Reversal 127
- 23. Double Reversal 133
- 24. Complex Indirect Cause 139
- 25. Dual Causation: Probabilities 143
- 26. Dual Causation: Structures 147
- 27. Paradoxical Causation 151
- 28. Interventions 155
- 29. Causal Covariance 163
- 30. Unitary Rates 169
- 31. Functional Causation 177
- 32. The Causation Operator 183
- 33. Causal Modeling 187
- 34. Dependence 199
- 35. DAG Theory 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824707486
- OCLC:
- 48263750
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