{"id":567,"date":"2018-04-15T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2020-10-12T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:39:20","slug":"causal-inference-in-ecology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/causal-inference-in-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Causal inference in ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/causal-inference-in-ecology-an-update\/\">Causal inference in ecology &#8211; An update<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you followed the blog series on causal inference in ecology or you learned about it later, this page contains links to all of the pages in the series. You don&#8217;t necessarily need to read them in order, but please read the disclaimers in the introduction to the series before reading anything else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/causal-inference-in-ecology-introduction-to-the-series\/\">Introduction to the series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/04\/16\/causal-inference-in-ecology-counterfactuals\/\">Counterfactuals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/causal-inference-in-ecology-controlled-experiments\/\">Controlled experiments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/causal-inference-in-ecology-randomization-and-sample-size\/\">Randomization and sample size<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/05\/14\/causal-inference-in-ecology-the-challenge-of-falsification\/\">The challenge of falsification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/causal-inference-in-ecology-setting-the-stage-for-the-rubin-causal-model\/\">Setting the stage for the Rubin causal model<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/05\/28\/causal-inference-in-ecology-the-rubin-causal-modal-part-1\/\">The Rubin causal model (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/causal-inference-in-ecology-the-rubin-causal-model-part-2\/\">The Rubin causal model (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/06\/11\/causal-inference-in-ecology-the-rubin-causal-model-in-ecology\/\">The Rubin causal model in ecology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/causal-inference-in-ecology-concluding-thoughts\/\">Concluding thoughts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will be thinking about causal inference in the context of observational data and statistics, and the causal inference series will say little or nothing about the problems with P-values, Bayes factors, credible\/confidence intervals overlapping 0 (or not), and the like. If you\u2019d like to know the concerns I have about them, here are links to old posts on those issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/inference-from-noisy-data-with-small-samples\/\">Inference from noisy data with small samples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/being-bayesian-wont-save-you\/\">Being Bayesian won\u2019t save you<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/09\/19\/even-an-informative-prior-doesnt-help-much\/\">Even an informative prior doesn\u2019t help much<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/noisy-data-and-small-samples-are-a-bad-combination\/\">Noisy data and small samples are a bad combination<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Causal inference in ecology &#8211; An update If you followed the blog series on causal inference in ecology or you learned about it later, this page contains links to all&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/causal-inference-in-ecology\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-567","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}