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Auteur(s) : Rosenbaum, Paul R.  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Observation and experiment [Texte imprimé] : an introduction to causal inference / Paul R. Rosenbaum

Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard university press, copyright 2017

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-374 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
We hear that a glass of red wine prolongs life, that alcohol is a carcinogen, that pregnant women should drink not a drop of alcohol. Major medical journals first claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduces the risk of heart disease, then reversed themselves and said it increases the risk of heart disease. What are the effects caused by consuming alcohol or by receiving hormone replacement therapy? These are causal questions, questions about the effects caused by treatments, policies or preventable exposures. Some causal questions can be studied in randomized trials, in which a coin is flipped to decide the treatment for the next experimental subject. Because randomized trials are not always practical, nor always ethical, many causal questions are investigated in non-randomized observational studies. The reversal of opinion about hormone replacement therapy occurred when a randomized clinical trial contradicted a series of earlier observational studies. Using minimal mathematics--high school algebra and coin flips--and numerous examples, Observation and Experiment explains the key concepts and methods of causal inference. Examples of randomized experiments and observational studies are drawn from clinical medicine, economics, public health and epidemiology, clinical psychology and psychiatry.

Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Expériences  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Observation (méthode scientifique)  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Inférence  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  001.434 (23e éd.) = Recherche - Méthode expérimentale  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674975576. - ISBN 067497557X (rel.)

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Notice n° :  FRBNF45492026 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Part I. Randomized experiments. A randomized trial ; Structure ; Causal inference in randomized experiments ; Irrationality and polio ; Part II. Observational studies. Between observational studies and experiments ; Natural experiments ; Elaborate theories ; Quasi-experimental devices ; Sensitivity to bias ; Design sensitivity ; Matching techniques ; Biases from general dispositions ; Instruments ; Conclusion.