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4.11: Critical Thinking Questions

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    Websites

    Journal Articles

    • Youngblut, J. M. 1994. “A Consumer’s Guide to Causal Modeling: Part I.” Journal of Pediatric Nursing 9 (4): 268–71.
    • Clarke, Kevin A., and David M. Primo. 2007. “Modernizing Political Science: A ModelBased Approach.” Perspectives on Politics 5 (4): 741–53.
    • Tully, Mary P. 2014. “Research: Articulating Questions, Generating Hypotheses, and Choosing Study Designs.” The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 67 (1): 31–34.

    Books

    • Jaccard, J., and J. Jacoby. 2010. “Theory Construction and Model Building: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists.” New York: The Guilford Press.
    • Pearl, Judea. 2009. Causality. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press.
    • Morgan, Stephen L., and Christopher Winship. 2015. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107587991.

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