Linear Causal Modeling with Structural Equations

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Notes

¹The book has generated discussion on the SEMNET e-mail list, but I have not attempted to follow that discussion and do not attempt to incorporate it here. If statements made as part of that discussion anticipate statements in this review, I here acknowledge the contributions of participants in that discussion.

²Until this book, two articles on causation (Mulaik, 1986, 1987) provided the canonical mature statement of Mulaik's views, first presented in less developed form by James, Mulaik, and Brett (1982). Without explanation, Mulaik omits any reference to one of these (Mulaik, 1987) although he does cite another article from the same year.

³Mulaik's positing of assumptions recalls the medieval practice of positio in which the opponent introduces claims that the respondent must then either accept, deny, or doubt (neither accept nor deny) without accepting claims that entail a contradiction (Stump, 1982).