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Can Big Data Solve the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2014

Rocío Titiunik
Rocío Titiunik*
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University of Michigan
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Symposium: Big Data, Causal Inference, and Formal Theory: Contradictory Trends in Political Science?
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 75 - 79
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2015 

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