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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors' Introduction: Inference and Shoe Leather
- Part I Statistical Modeling: Foundations and Limitations
- Part II Studies in Political Science, Public Policy, and Epidemiology
- 4 Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments
- 5 On “Solutions” to the Ecological Inference Problem
- 6 Rejoinder to King
- 7 Black Ravens, White Shoes, and Case Selection: Inference with Categorical Variables
- 8 What is the Chance of an Earthquake?
- 9 Salt and Blood Pressure: Conventional Wisdom Reconsidered
- 10 The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Study in Relative Risk and Specific Causation
- 11 Survival Analysis: An Epidemiological Hazard?
- Part III New Developments: Progress or Regress?
- Part IV Shoe Leather Revisited
- References and Further Reading
- Index
7 - Black Ravens, White Shoes, and Case Selection: Inference with Categorical Variables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors' Introduction: Inference and Shoe Leather
- Part I Statistical Modeling: Foundations and Limitations
- Part II Studies in Political Science, Public Policy, and Epidemiology
- 4 Methods for Census 2000 and Statistical Adjustments
- 5 On “Solutions” to the Ecological Inference Problem
- 6 Rejoinder to King
- 7 Black Ravens, White Shoes, and Case Selection: Inference with Categorical Variables
- 8 What is the Chance of an Earthquake?
- 9 Salt and Blood Pressure: Conventional Wisdom Reconsidered
- 10 The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Case Study in Relative Risk and Specific Causation
- 11 Survival Analysis: An Epidemiological Hazard?
- Part III New Developments: Progress or Regress?
- Part IV Shoe Leather Revisited
- References and Further Reading
- Index
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- Statistical Models and Causal InferenceA Dialogue with the Social Sciences, pp. 105 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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