Social experiments: Some developments over the past fifteen years

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 545-580

  Cook, Thomas D ^a   Shadish, William R ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal generalization; Causation; Quasi experiments; Randomization; Selection modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 12044253092     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.45.020194.002553     Document Type: Article

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