Summary: Math 140
Introductory Statistics
Professor Bernardo Ábrego
Lecture 10
Section 4.3, 5.1
4.3 Experiments and
Inference about Cause
Cause and Effect
4.3 Experiments and
Inference about Cause
Cause and Effect
Lurking Variable:
A variable in the background that could explain
a pattern between the variables investigated.
How to establish cause and effect?
Answer: Conduct an experiment.
Experiments
Goal: To establish cause and effect by
comparing two or more conditions (called
treatments) using an outcome variable

Source: Abrego, Bernardo - Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge

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