Comment on "Why and When 'Flawed' Social Network Analyses Still Yield Valid Tests of no Contagion"

In: Statistics, Politics, and Policy, Band 3, Heft 1

Abstract

VanderWeele et al.'s paper is a useful contribution to the on-going
scientific conversation about the detection of contagion from purely
observational data. It is especially helpful as a corrective to some of the
more extreme statements of Lyons (2011). Unfortunately, this paper, too,
goes too far in some places, and so needs some correction itself.