Join the Department of Political Science as we celebrate the launch of Professor Alan Jacobs’ new book, Integrated Inferences: Causal Models for Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research.
Integrated Inferences was co-written with Professor Macartan Humphreys of WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
The event will begin at 2:30pm with a short presentation on the book in Green College Coach House, followed by a reception at 3:00pm with a cash bar and appetizers in Green College Piano Lounge (next to the Coach House).
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About the book
Integrated Inferences
There is a growing consensus in the social sciences on the virtues of research strategies that combine quantitative with qualitative tools of inference.
Integrated Inferences develops a framework for using causal models and Bayesian updating for qualitative and mixed-methods research. By making, updating, and querying causal models, researchers are able to integrate information from different data sources while connecting theory and empirics in a far more systematic and transparent manner than standard qualitative and quantitative approaches allow.
This book provides an introduction to fundamental principles of causal inference and Bayesian updating and shows how these tools can be used to implement and justify inferences using within-case (process tracing) evidence, correlational patterns across many cases, or a mix of the two.
The authors also demonstrate how causal models can guide research design, informing choices about which cases, observations, and mixes of methods will be most useful for addressing any given question.
