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Author Pearl, Judea, author.

Title The book of why : the new science of cause and effect / Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2018.
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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  501 PEA    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description x, 418 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Mind over data -- The ladder of causation -- From buccaneers to guinea pigs: the genesis of causal inference -- From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes -- Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable -- The smoke-filled debate: clearing the air -- Paradoxes galore! -- Beyond adjustment: the conquest of Mt. Intervention -- Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been -- Mediation: the search for a mechanism -- Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions.
Summary "Everyone has heard the claim, "Correlation does not imply causation." What might sound like a reasonable dictum metastasized in the twentieth century into one of science's biggest obstacles, as a legion of researchers became unwilling to make the claim that one thing could cause another. Even two decades ago, asking a statistician a question like "Was it the aspirin that stopped my headache?" would have been like asking if he believed in voodoo, or at best a topic for conversation at a cocktail party rather than a legitimate target of scientific inquiry. Scientists were allowed to posit only that the probability that one thing was associated with another. This all changed with Judea Pearl, whose work on causality was not just a victory for common sense, but a revolution in the study of the world"-- Provided by publisher.
"Correlation is not causation" -- this was one of the standards of scientific belief for a century. Now Pearl and his colleagues establish causality-- the study of cause and effect-- on a firm scientific basis. Causality doesn't just enable us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is not just a victory for common sense, but a revolution in the study of the world. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Causation.
Inference.
SCIENCE -- General.
Causation. (OCoLC)fst00849829
Inference. (OCoLC)fst00972355
Added Author Mackenzie, Dana, author.
Other Form: Online version: Pearl, Judea. Book of why. New York : Basic Books, [2018] 9780465097616 (DLC) 2018005510
ISBN 9780465097609 (hardcover)
046509760X (hardcover)
9780465097616 (electronic book)
0465097618 (electronic book)
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