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European Sociological Review Advance Access originally published online on December 23, 2008
European Sociological Review 2009 25(5):561-567; doi:10.1093/esr/jcn072
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History, Case Studies, Statistics, and Causal Inference

Peter Abell

Abell Peter, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE.

Correspondence: Email: p.abell{at}lse.ac.uk

The article explores the logic of the orthodox statistical model of causal inference, where many observations are required and compares it with a complementary model of Bayesian Narratives where unique events are encountered.

Manuscript received: November 1, 2008.


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