Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, Volume 1

WS. SHADISH, William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, Donald Thomas Campbell

Houghton Mifflin, 2002 - Philosophy - 623 pages

This long awaited successor of the original Cook/Campbell Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings represents updates in the field over the last two decades. The book covers four major topics in field experimentation:

• Theoretical matters: Experimentation, causation, and validity
• Quasi-experimental design: Regression discontinuity designs, interrupted time series designs, quasi-experimental designs that use both pretests and control groups, and other designs
• Randomized experiments: Logic and design issues, and practical problems involving ethics, recruitment, assignment, treatment implementation, and attrition
• Generalized causal inference: A grounded theory of generalized causal inference, along with methods for implementing that theory in single and multiple studies

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User Review -

Excellent book. I require the text in a doctoral research design course that I teach. A must read for those conducting human trials.

Contents

• EXPERIMENTS AND GENERALIZED CAUSAL: 1
• Causation Correlation and Confounds: 7
• Randomized Experiment: 13

Bibliographic information

• Title: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, Volume 1; Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, Donald Thomas Campbell
• Authors: WS. SHADISH, William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, Donald Thomas Campbell
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 30, 2009
• ISBN: 0395615569, 9780395615560
• Length: 623 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Epistemology; Psychology / Experimental Psychology; Psychology / General