Causal Analysis beyond the experimental method. Two examples of the nonexperimental causal models (with statistical solutions) Cover Image

Analiza przyczynowa poza metodą eksperymentalną. Dwa przykłady modeli przyczynowych wykraczających poza schemat eksperymentalny
Causal Analysis beyond the experimental method. Two examples of the nonexperimental causal models (with statistical solutions)

Author(s): Katarzyna Jaśko, Mariusz Trejtowicz
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: causality; causal modelling; causal process analysis; mediation analysis; Structural Equation Modelling; Linear Mixed Model; statistics; methodology

Summary/Abstract: The article presents two examples of causal inferences in which theoretical problems exclude a possibility to infer causal relations from effects of experimental manipulation. The first example is a causal inference through mediation analysis. Particular emphasis has been placed on interpretation of direct, total and indirect effects in Structural Equation Modelling. The second example concerns the causal impact of a dependent variable on its own explanatory model. In this example estimation of the causal model parameters can be done through the Linear Mixed Model.

  • Issue Year: V/2010
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 260-272
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish