The book of why: the new science of cause and effect /

"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...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Pearl, Judea (Awdur), Mackenzie, Dana (Awdur)
Fformat: Llyfr
Cyhoeddwyd: New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Rhifyn:First edition.
Pynciau:
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.