Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [357]-392) e índice. CONTENIDO: Editor's introduction: inference and shoe leather -- Statistical modeling: foundations and limitations -- issues in the foundations of statistics : probability and statistical models -- Statistical assumptions as empirical commitements -- Statistical models and shoe leather -- Studies in political science, public policy, and epidemiology -- Methods for Census 2000 and statistical adjustments -- On "solutions" to the ecological inference problem -- Rejoinder to king -- Black ravens, white shoes, and case selection : inference with categorical variables -- What is the chance of an earthquake -- Salt and blood pressure : conventional wisdom reconsidered -- The Swine Flu vaccine and Guillain-BarreŽ syndrome : a case study in relative risk and specific causation -- Survival analysis : an epidemiological hazard? -- New developments : progress or regress? -- On regression adjustments in experiments with several treatments -- Randomization does not justify logistic regression -- The grand leap -- On specifying graphical models for causation, and the identification problem -- Weighting regressions by propensity scores -- On the so-called "Huber Sandwich Estimator" and "Robust Standard Errors" -- Endogeneity in probit response models -- Diagnostics cannot have much power against general alternatives -- Shoe leather revisited -- On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning.
