Posts Tagged ‘ causation ’

Correlation Resources: SPSS, R, Causality, Interpretation, and APA Style Reporting

July 17, 2011
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Correlation Resources: SPSS, R, Causality, Interpretation, and APA Style Reporting

This post provides links to a range of resources related to the use andinterpretation of correlations.I wanted to provide a page with links to a number of additional resources thatwould be useful both for those of my students who might be keen to learn...

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An Application of boot() to IV regression

May 28, 2011
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An Application of boot() to IV regression

Bootstrapping standard errors can be a useful technique when obtaining closed form for the standard error formula is difficult or intractable. In this post, I give an example of how to use R to create a bootstrap sampling distribution in the context o...

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Video Tutorial on IV Regression

April 10, 2011
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Video Tutorial on IV Regression

I recorded a new video tutorial on how to conduct an IV regression. This time I used my new ivregress() command, which has much better syntax than my old one. There are several reasons I needed to do this:Relative to my previous post on IV regression...

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An easier to use IV regression command in R

March 10, 2011
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An easier to use IV regression command in R

Update: I have added some functionality to my ivregress() command. Check out my newer post here.After I posted my last video tutorial on how to use my IV regression function, I received a comment asking why I didn't write the command a different way t...

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Video Tutorial on Instrumental Variables in R

March 8, 2011
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Video Tutorial on Instrumental Variables in R

Update: I have replaced this video tutorial with a video tutorial on a newer, easier to use IV regression command. Check out that command here.In this video, I show how to use my instrumental variables function in R, ivreg(), along with its companion ...

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extrapolation and interpolation The most important lesson I…

May 25, 2010
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extrapolation and interpolation
The most important lesson I…

extrapolation and interpolation The most important lesson I learned from this book:  regression is reliable for interpolation, but not for extrapolation.  Even further, your observations really need to cover the whole gamut of causal variables, inter...

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Free Video Courses on R, Structural Equation Modelling, Causal Inference, and Regression from Uni Jena

April 22, 2010
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Free Video Courses on R, Structural Equation Modelling, Causal Inference, and Regression from Uni Jena

The Department of methodology and Evaluation Research at Universität Jena has made available a set of free online video courses on data analysis.They cover topics that are particularly relevant to psychology and social science researchers, including ...

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