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Inference Using Non-Random Samples? Stop Right There!

Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, Oliver Mußhoff, Claudia Becker, Antje Jantsch

2021Significance19 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract Statistical inference allows researchers to learn things about a population using only a sample of data from that population. But if it isn't a random sample, inference becomes tricky or outright impossible, as Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, Oliver Mußhoff, Claudia Becker and Antje Jantsch explain

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InferenceStatistical inferenceSample (material)PopulationStatisticsComputer scienceGenealogyMathematicsArtificial intelligenceHistoryDemographySociologyPhysicsThermodynamicsStatistical Methods and InferenceAdvanced Causal Inference TechniquesStatistical Methods and Bayesian Inference