Daniel Steel (ed.)
Oxford University Press (2007)
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Inferences like these are known as extrapolations.
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| Keywords | Medicine Philosophy Biology Philosophy Social sciences Philosophy Extrapolation Causality Causality Physiology, Comparative Population Characteristics Psychology, Comparative Public Policy Research Design |
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| Reprint years | 2007, 2008 |
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| Call number | R852.S72 2008 |
| ISBN(s) | 9780195331448 0195331443 |
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Extrapolation and Heterogeneity
This chapter introduces the general methodological challenges that confront extrapolation in the biological and social sciences, and sketches the outlines of the mechanisms approach to those challenges that is developed in the rest of the book.
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