Causal Analysis in Population Studies Concepts, Methods, Applications /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Engelhardt, Henriette (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kohler, Hans-Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Έκδοση: 1.
• Σειρά: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 23
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Population.; Sociology.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Social Sciences, general.

The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the ‘causes of effects’ by applying standard cross-sectional and dynamic regressi...

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