Predicting 'It will work for us': (Way) beyond statistics

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cartwright, Nancy ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacities; Effectiveness; Efficacy; Evidence based policy; Evidence based practice; External validity; RCTs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955398148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0035     Document Type: Chapter

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