Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability) - Hardcover

Rosenbaum, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367483882 ISBN 13: 9780367483883

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2021

Synopsis

Outside of randomized experiments, association does not imply causation, and yet there is nothing defective about our knowledge that smoking causes lung cancer, a conclusion reached in the absence of randomized experimentation with humans. How is that possible? If observed associations do not identify causal effects in observational studies, how can a sequence of such associations become decisive?

Two or more associations may each be susceptible to unmeasured biases, yet not susceptible to the same biases. An observational study has two evidence factors if it provides two comparisons susceptible to different biases that may be combined as if from independent studies of different data by different investigators, despite using the same data twice. If the two factors concur, then they may exhibit greater insensitivity to unmeasured biases than either factor exhibits on its own.

Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies includes four parts:

• A concise introduction to causal inference, making the book self-contained
• Practical examples of evidence factors from the health and social sciences with analyses in R
• The theory of evidence factors
• Study design with evidence factors

A companion R package evident is available from CRAN.

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About the Author

Author

Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. For contributions to causal inference, he received the R. A. Fisher Award in 2019 and the George W. Snedecor Award in 2003, both from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). He delivered an IMS Medallion Lecture on the topic of this book in 2020. Dr. Rosenbaum is the author of several other books including Observational Studies (Springer 1995, 2002), Design of Observational Studies (Springer 2010, 2020), and Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference (Harvard University Press 2017).

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367483882
• ISBN 13: 9780367483883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272