Chapter 13 - Experiments. In this chapter, the following content will be discussed: experimental vs. descriptive research, what constitutes causality? direction of causation issue, conditions for valid causal inference, laboratory and field experiments,...
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Trang 6▫ The causal variable should have a positive association with the effect variable lagged in time
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Trang 10• Response tends to be natural
• Tend to have much greater external validity
• Difficult to control
• Competing explanations for results exist
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Threats to Internal validity
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CG2 R O4
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between the treatment levels and control variables are unimportant
levels
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• Provides the ability to determine interactive effects of pairs of experimental variables and the main effect
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Trang 35• Recognition of and statement of the problem should be clear and generally acceptable
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• Examples of companies involved in STM research BASES,
ASSESSOR and Yankelovich.
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