Agent-based Models and Causal Inference / Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science (ePub)
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Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Scholars of causal inference have given little credence to the possibility that ABMs could be an important tool in warranting causal claims. Manzo's book makes a...
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Scholars of causal inference have given little credence to the possibility that ABMs could be an important tool in warranting causal claims. Manzo's book makes a...
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Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Scholars of causal inference have given little credence to the possibility that ABMs could be an important tool in warranting causal claims. Manzo's book makes a convincing case that this is a mistake. The book starts by describing the impressive progress that ABMs have made as a credible methodology in the last several decades. It then goes on to compare the inferential threats to ABMs versus the traditional methods of RCTs, regression, and instrumental variables showing that they have a common vulnerability of being based on untestable assumptions. The book concludes by looking at four examples where an analysis based on ABMs complements and augments the evidence for specific causal claims provided by other methods. Manzo has done a most convincing job of showing that ABMs can be an important resource in any researcher's tool kit.
Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference delivers an insightful investigation into the conditions under which different quantitative methods can legitimately hold to be able to establish causal claims. The book compares agent-based computational methods with randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and various types of causal graphs.
Organized in two parts, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference connects the literature from various fields, including causality, social mechanisms, statistical and experimental methods for causal inference, and agent-based computation models to help show that causality means different things within different methods for causal analysis, and that persuasive causal claims can only be built at the intersection of these various methods.
Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:
* A thorough comparison between agent-based computation models to randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and several types of causal graphs
* A compelling argument that observational and experimental methods are not qualitatively superior to simulation-based methods in their ability to establish causal claims
* Practical discussions of how statistical, experimental and computational methods can be combined to produce reliable causal inferences
Perfect for academic social scientists and scholars in the fields of computational social science, philosophy, statistics, experimental design, and ecology, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference will also earn a place in the libraries of PhD students seeking a one-stop reference on the issue of causal inference in agent-based computational models.
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
Scholars of causal inference have given little credence to the possibility that ABMs could be an important tool in warranting causal claims. Manzo's book makes a convincing case that this is a mistake. The book starts by describing the impressive progress that ABMs have made as a credible methodology in the last several decades. It then goes on to compare the inferential threats to ABMs versus the traditional methods of RCTs, regression, and instrumental variables showing that they have a common vulnerability of being based on untestable assumptions. The book concludes by looking at four examples where an analysis based on ABMs complements and augments the evidence for specific causal claims provided by other methods. Manzo has done a most convincing job of showing that ABMs can be an important resource in any researcher's tool kit.
Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA
Agent-based Models and Causal Inference delivers an insightful investigation into the conditions under which different quantitative methods can legitimately hold to be able to establish causal claims. The book compares agent-based computational methods with randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and various types of causal graphs.
Organized in two parts, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference connects the literature from various fields, including causality, social mechanisms, statistical and experimental methods for causal inference, and agent-based computation models to help show that causality means different things within different methods for causal analysis, and that persuasive causal claims can only be built at the intersection of these various methods.
Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:
* A thorough comparison between agent-based computation models to randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and several types of causal graphs
* A compelling argument that observational and experimental methods are not qualitatively superior to simulation-based methods in their ability to establish causal claims
* Practical discussions of how statistical, experimental and computational methods can be combined to produce reliable causal inferences
Perfect for academic social scientists and scholars in the fields of computational social science, philosophy, statistics, experimental design, and ecology, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference will also earn a place in the libraries of PhD students seeking a one-stop reference on the issue of causal inference in agent-based computational models.
Autoren-Porträt von Gianluca Manzo
Gianluca Manzo is a professor of sociology at Sorbonne University and a fellow of the European Academy of Sociology. He has held various positions at institutions across the world including Nuffield College, Columbia University, the European University Institute (EUI), and the Universities of Oslo, Barcelona, Cologne, and Trento.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gianluca Manzo
- 2022, 1. Auflage, 176 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1119704464
- ISBN-13: 9781119704461
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2022
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