{"id":1344,"date":"2014-12-20T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2014-12-20T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T21:46:07","slug":"a-new-review-of-causality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/20\/a-new-review-of-causality\/","title":{"rendered":"A new review of Causality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new review of Causality (2nd Edition, 2013 printing) has appeared in Acta Sociologica 2014, Vol. 57(4) 369-375.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/elwert-review2014.pdf\">http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/elwert-review2014.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nReviewed by Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. <\/p>\n<p>Elwert highlights specific sections of Causality that can empower social scientists with new insights or new tools for applying modern methods of causal inference in their research. Coming from a practical social science perspective, this review is a welcome addition to the list of 33 other reviews of Causality, which tend to be more philosophical. see <a href=\"http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/book_review.html\">http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/book_review.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am particularly gratified by Elwert&#8217;s final remarks:<br \/>\n&#8220;Pearl&#8217;s language empowers social scientists to communicate causal models with each other across sub-disciplines&#8230;and enables social scientists to communicate more effectively with statistical methodologists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new review of Causality (2nd Edition, 2013 printing) has appeared in Acta Sociologica 2014, Vol. 57(4) 369-375. http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/BOOK-2K\/elwert-review2014.pdf Reviewed by Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Elwert highlights specific sections of Causality that can empower social scientists with new insights or new tools for applying modern methods of causal inference in their research. Coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-j-pearl","category-general","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}