causal inference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandinference
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causal
adjective
uk/ˈkɔː.zəl/us/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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inference
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.fər.əns/us/ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/
a guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that ...
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Finally, despite our consideration of depression across time, longitudinal studies of this type cannot rival experiments in terms ofcausalinference.
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A second disadvantage is that controlled experiments, often taken to be the gold standard ofcausalinference, are much less available to social scientists.
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This paper mainly addresses questions related tocausalinferenceand describes a prototype system to test the ideas.
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But this is a matter ofcausalinferenceand not of micro modelling.
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Researchers now realize that, if they wish to draw acausalinference, it is essential to use strategies that determine the direction of effects.
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First, policy discourse in this arena is still conducted by appeals to evidence andcausalinference.
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As the onset of psychiatric disorder was not dated, nocausalinferencecan be made of the association of life events with disorder.
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The majority of studies reviewed were crosssectional, limitingcausalinferencethat may be drawn from these data.
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The impliedcausalinferencewas clear.
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Apart fromcausalinference, his research interests are economic methodology, concept formation, thought experiments and history of modern philosophy.
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When the response behavior is statistically unlikely to be due to random variation, the researcher is able to draw acausalinference.
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An introduction tocausalinference.
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This is a problem which has been of particular interest in the study ofcausalinferencein statistics, and we will outline a widely used solution to this problem here.
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Twin studies allow us to control for genetic background when assessingcausalinference.
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In itscausalinference, ressentiment makes use of that grammar which interprets the event or the act in accordance with the order of subject and predicate, cause and effect.
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First, nocausalinferencecan be made of the association of social support deficits with specific types of neurotic symptoms reported here.
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Nietzsche's discussion of the relation betweencausalinferenceand ressentiment underscores to what an extent these considerations fundamentally affect the origin of the sciences in the dispositional mode of suspicion.
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Causalinferencemay not be possible or desirable in many cases, but if it is to be relied upon, the analyst must go further than this statement.
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