Using statistics to determine causal relationships

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-32

  Reiter, Jerome ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0034388334     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2589374     Document Type: Article

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