Cause and Correlation in Biology, 9781009560382
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Cause and Correlation in Biology

A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference with R

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    398 pages

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    31 May 2026

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Summary

Aimed at practising biologists, especially graduate students and researchers in ecology, this revised and expanded 3rd edition continues to explore cause-effect relationships through a series of robust statistical methods. Every chapter has been updated, and two brand-new chapters cover statistical power, Akaike information criterion statistics and equivalent models, and piecewise structural equation modelling with implicit latent variables. A new R package (pwSEM) is included to assist with …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781009560382
ISBN-10:1009560387
Author:Bill Shipley
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:398
Edition:3rd
Release Date:31 May 2026
Weight:0g
About The Author

Bill Shipley

Bill Shipley is Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. He is the author of From Plant Traits to Vegetation Structure: Chance and Selection in the Assembly of Ecological Communities (2012) and continues to make significant contributions to statistical methodology in ecology.

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