Manzo Gianluca Agent-based Models and Causal Inference 9781119704478

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Автор: Manzo Gianluca
Название: Agent-based Models and Causal Inference
ISBN: 9781119704478
Издательство: Wiley
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Вероятность и статистика

ISBN-10: 1119704472
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 09.03.2022
Серия: Wiley series in computational and quantitative social science
Язык: English
Размер: 24.41 x 16.99 x 1.12 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Agent-based Models and Causal Inference

Agent-based Models and Causal Inference

Scholars of causal inference have given little credence to the possibility that ABMs could be an important tool in warranting causal claims. Manzos book makes a convincing case that this is a mistake. The book starts by describing the impressive progress that ABMs have made as a credible methodology in the last several decades. It then goes on to compare the inferential threats to ABMs versus the traditional methods of RCTs, regression, and instrumental variables showing that they have a common vulnerability of being based on untestable assumptions. The book concludes by looking at four examples where an analysis based on ABMs complements and augments the evidence for specific causal claims provided by other methods. Manzo has done a most convincing job of showing that ABMs can be an important resource in any researchers tool kit.
Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA

Agent-based Models and Causal Inference delivers an insightful investigation into the conditions under which different quantitative methods can legitimately hold to be able to establish causal claims. The book compares agent-based computational methods with randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and various types of causal graphs.

Organized in two parts, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference connects the literature from various fields, including causality, social mechanisms, statistical and experimental methods for causal inference, and agent-based computation models to help show that causality means different things within different methods for causal analysis, and that persuasive causal claims can only be built at the intersection of these various methods.

Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:

A thorough comparison between agent-based computation models to randomized experiments, instrumental variables, and several types of causal graphs
A compelling argument that observational and experimental methods are not qualitatively superior to simulation-based methods in their ability to establish causal claims
Practical discussions of how statistical, experimental and computational methods can be combined to produce reliable causal inferences

Perfect for academic social scientists and scholars in the fields of computational social science, philosophy, statistics, experimental design, and ecology, Agent-based Models and Causal Inference will also earn a place in the libraries of PhD students seeking a one-stop reference on the issue of causal inference in agent-based computational models.

Agent-based Models and Causal Inference, Manzo Gianluca