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Data Inference In Observational Settings by Peter Davis

Data Inference In Observational Settings

by Peter Davis
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781446266502
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Education & Psychology
  • Publisher: Sage Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 1648
  • Original Price: GBP 710.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 3130 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Research

Most social research is carried out in observational settings; that is, most social researchers collect information in the "real world" trying to do as little possible to alter the circumstances of study. However, there is a fundamental problem with this kind of research, in that it is very hard to draw "causal" conclusions, because of the complexity and obduracy of social reality. This is not just a problem for social scientists interested in policy or social action. It applies across the board more generally because it becomes difficult to know, without the conditions for credible inference, what conclusions can be drawn from any piece of empirical research that aspires to be anything more than descriptive of social phenomena.

This four-volume set of readings introduces the reader to the advances that have been made in trying to help social researchers draw more credible inferences from investigations carried out in observational settings. Drawing from a variety of sources - from logicians and philosophers, to applied statisticians, computer scientists and econometricians, to epidemiologists and social researchers - this collection provides an invaluable resource for scholars in the field.

Volume One: Background

Volume Two: Analytical Techniques

Volume Three: Temporal Relations

Volume Four: Experimental Analogues

Davis, Peter: - Peter Davis is Director of the COMPASS Research Centre and Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland, with cross-appointments in the School of Population Health and in the Department of Statistics, also at the University of Auckland. Previously he served as Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago′s Christchurch School of Medicine. Davis specialises in medical sociology, and has achieved international recognition in his field, having worked as a consultant for the World Health Organisation. His main interests are in research methods, social structures, and policy, particularly health policy and health services. He has collaborated with colleagues in health research and in social statistics on a number of major surveys since the 1970s. He was Senior Editor (Health Policy) at the international journal, Social Science and Medicine, until 2012.

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