Correlation Causation

An easy introduction to Regression in Data Analysis

Stressing causation as a functional relationship between variables, this book presents the fundamentals of structural equation modeling, including concepts from Bayesian graph theory, path tracing rules for variances and covariances, equivalent models, and instrumental variables.

Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. In this book, Ayumi Miura tackles this under-discussed question with special reference to verbs of emotion in Middle English.