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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2019
      January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316831762
      9781107178915
      9781316631140
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831762
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine and Health, Research Methods in Politics, Politics and International Relations, Statistics and Probability, Research Methods In Politics
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    Reflecting a sea change in how empirical research has been conducted over the past three decades, Foundations of Agnostic Statistics presents an innovative treatment of modern statistical theory for the social and health sciences. This book develops the fundamentals of what the authors call agnostic statistics, which considers what can be learned about the world without assuming that there exists a simple generative model that can be known to be true. Aronow and Miller provide the foundations for statistical inference for researchers unwilling to make assumptions beyond what they or their audience would find credible. Building from first principles, the book covers topics including estimation theory, regression, maximum likelihood, missing data, and causal inference. Using these principles, readers will be able to formally articulate their targets of inquiry, distinguish substantive assumptions from statistical assumptions, and ultimately engage in cutting-edge quantitative empirical research that contributes to human knowledge.

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