id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qyakarlhhrfsjn2wp32rkyltla Karen R. Zwier An Epistemology of Causal Inference from Experiment 2013 19 .pdf application/pdf 5242 294 59 why and how experiments are used for the empirical testing of causal claims. "ordinary" experiments that are not explicitly designed for the testing of causal the relevant hypothetical experiment for a given causal claim? following: for a causal claim such as "X causes Y ", the hypothetical experiment under Actual experiments intended to test a causal claim can—and Let us focus on how an actual experiment must be carried out if it is to test a causal claim: EXPERIMENTAL SERIES FOR TESTING THE CLAIM "X IS A CAUSE OF Y ": A set of intervention in an experimental instance for testing a variety of causal claims; the variable X interventions involved in the experiment are considered either as observed background series for testing the claim that the state of valve M is a cause of the vessel AG emptying. for testing a causal claim will be found quite commonly in "ordinary" scientific experiments. ./cache/work_qyakarlhhrfsjn2wp32rkyltla.pdf ./txt/work_qyakarlhhrfsjn2wp32rkyltla.txt