Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference — William R. Shadish et al. (2002)

Book Description

Sections include: experiments and generalised causal inference; statistical conclusion validity and internal validity; construct validity and external validity; quasi-experimental designs that either lack a control group or lack pretest observations on the outcome; quasi-experimental designs that use both control groups and pretests; quasi-experiments: interrupted time-series designs; regresssion discontinuity designs; randomised experiments: rationale, designs, and conditions conducive to doing them; practical problems 1: ethics, participation recruitment and random assignment; practical problems 2: treatment implementation and attrition; generalised causal inference: a grounded theory; generalised causal inference: methods for single studies; generalised causal inference: methods for multiple studies; a critical assessment of our assumptions.

Book Details

• Author: William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, Donald Thomas Campbell
• Publisher: Cengage
• Published Date: 2002
• Published Year: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780395615560