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Teacher(s)
Language
English
Prerequisites
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Content
Part I. (S. Van Bellegem, Lectures 1 to 6)
- The principles of arithmetrics
- Intuitionism and constructive mathematics
- The idealized objects of statistics and econometrics
- Constructive statistics and the principle of induction
- Scientific representation: objectivity, models, idealization
- Determinism and the nature probabilities
- Scientific explanation and causation
- Causation = counterfactual dependance?
- Causation = manipulability?
- Causation = patterns of statitical associations?
Evaluation methods
Oral exam
Online resources
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Teaching materials
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