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Spuriousness Versus Intervening Variables: The Problem of Temporal Sequences

 

作者: H. M. Blalock,  

 

期刊: Social Forces  （OUP Available online 1962）
卷期: Volume 40, issue 4  

页码: 330-336

 

ISSN:0037-7732

 

年代: 1962

 

DOI:10.2307/2573889

 

出版商: The University of North Carolina Press

 

数据来源: OUP

 

摘要:

A procedure is suggested for making causal inferences in situations in which temporal sequences are in doubt. By adding a fourth variable which is a cause of either X or Y, but not both, we may distinguish between the alternative possibilities X → Y → Z and X ← Y ← Z. In principle, the method may be generalized to any number of variables.

 

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