Some Reflections on Freedman’s Critiques

Paul W. Holland
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Paul W. Holland: University of California, Graduate School of Education

A chapter in Topics in the Foundation of Statistics, 1997, pp 50-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Freedman’s version of objectivism is criticised along the usual subjectivist lines coupled with the more positive reactions of the applied statistical eclectic. In addition, it is argued that the ‘error term’ interpretation of regression models that Freedman either takes as a given or regards as an innocuous faceon de parler is, in fact, the pebble that inevitably leads to the veritable avalanche of misuses of regression models for causal inference in economics, political science and elsewhere, that he deplores.

Keywords: Frequentist; Subjectivist; Error-term models; Data analysis; Regression models; Statistical practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8816-4_7

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