Causality in Crisis? by Vaughn McKim, Stephen Turner - 9780268008246

Causality In Crisis\nby Vaughn Mckim\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Vaughn Mckim\nTitle: Causality In Crisis\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social research and statistics\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press\nPublication year: 1997\nISBN-13: 9780268008246\nISBN-10: 0268008248\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the value of such methods of analysis is universally acknowledged, their use has never been wholly uncontroversial. In 1993 prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines (social sciences, statistics, philosophy of science) gathered at the University of Notre Dame .