On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:21:30 -0700, David Epstein wrote
I moved from teaching to research twenty years ago, so I'm not hip to
what's what in textbooks these days. And now I've got a postbac who
needs an assist with the basics of logical inference.
I'd like a book that explains (a) what kind of data you need to
address a given question, and, complementarily, (b) what kinds of
conclusions you can draw from a given set of data on hand.
Ideally, this would cover both randomized experiments/trials and
observational/longitudinal studies.
Off the top of my head, I would suggest William Shaddish's updated
of the Cook and Campbell book on quasi-experimentation. Shaddish
has been working research methods and causal inference for quite a
while so let me suggest that you tell you postbac to look at the refs
on Shaddish's Google Scholar profile; see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DANel8UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
For a unique and somewhat popular viewpoint on causal inference, see
the work by Judah Pearl -- here is a list of books on books.google.com
by Pearl (searching on the phrase "Judah Pearl" will show the range of
areas that cite Pearl); see:
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Judea+Pearl%22&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8lPaD08naAhVKON8KHcY3BcsQ9AgI4wEwIQ&biw=1280&bih=833&dpr=1
And one text to look at that places Pearl into historical and
philosophical
context see the following:
https://books.google.com/books?id=1bf_Ari0lbUC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22Judah+Pearl%22&source=bl&ots=1EiyR02W7t&sig=91YMHIYSOqy6ApS-A1BHfFUMrUM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ4uW30snaAhVwS98KHV72DOsQ6AEIiQEwFw#v=onepage&q=%22Judah%20Pearl%22&f=false
I would also suggest that one look at the last 10 years of the Annual
Review series -- but not just for Psychology because methods in
different areas (from sociology to ecology) may be of interest.
For example, one problem that ecologists deal with is estimating
the population of species in an area using capture-recapture
methods that turn out to be (somewhat) useful in estimating
specific human populations such as injection drug users. For
a list or recent research on these methods see:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2014&q=capture+recapture+methods&hl=en&as_sdt=1,33
The Annuals Reviews give a useful overview of currently popular methods
as well as sources for further examination.
HTH.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
P.S. Yes, I know its ASPERGER"S and not Asberger's. Not enough
coffee.
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