Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, Volume 1This 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:
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Excellent book. I require the text in a doctoral research design course that I teach. A must read for those conducting human trials.
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EXPERIMENTS AND GENERALIZED CAUSAL | 1 |
Causation Correlation and Confounds | 7 |
Randomized Experiment | 13 |
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