LEADER 03298nam 22006614a 450 001 9910965155803321 005 20250811145728.0 010 $a1-107-12154-X 010 $a1-280-43001-X 010 $a9786610430017 010 $a0-511-17348-2 010 $a0-511-01772-3 010 $a0-511-15255-8 010 $a0-511-32339-5 010 $a0-511-60594-3 010 $a0-511-04681-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001272 035 $a(EBL)164742 035 $a(OCoLC)62186358 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000118920 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139604 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118920 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10052918 035 $a(PQKB)10778159 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511605949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC164742 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL164742 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2000901 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43001 035 $a(PPN)261321048 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001272 100 $a20000403d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCause and correlation in biology $ea user's guide to path analysis, structural equations, and causal inference /$fBill Shipley 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York, NY. USA $cCambridge University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 08$a0-521-52921-2 311 08$a0-521-79153-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 308-315) and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Preliminaries; 2 From cause to correlation and back; 3 Sewall Wright, path analysis and d-separation; 4 Path analysis and maximum likelihood; 5 Measurement error and latent variables; 6 The structural equations model; 7 Nested models and multilevel models; 8 Exploration, discovery and equivalence; Appendix; References; Index 330 $aThis book goes beyond the truism that 'correlation does not imply causation' and explores the logical and methodological relationships between correlation and causation. It presents a series of statistical methods that can test, and potentially discover, cause-effect relationships between variables in situations in which it is not possible to conduct randomised or experimentally controlled experiments. Many of these methods are quite new and most are generally unknown to biologists. In addition to describing how to conduct these statistical tests, the book also puts the methods into historical context and explains when they can and cannot justifiably be used to test or discover causal claims. Written in a conversational style that minimises technical jargon, the book is aimed at practising biologists and advanced students, and assumes only a very basic knowledge of introductory statistics. 606 $aBiometry 615 0$aBiometry. 676 $a570/.1/5195 700 $aShipley$b Bill$f1960-$01837043 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965155803321 996 $aCause and correlation in biology$94415365 997 $aUNINA