Inferences of Causal Relevance from Experiments
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1 Theory and Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Causal analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1 Causal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Theory of causal regularities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Principles of causal reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3.1 Method of Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3.2 Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.3 Inferring a causal factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.4 More complex designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.5 Other inference patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.4 Difference tests in practise: notebook entries . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 Methodology of causal models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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