The book of why the new science of cause and effect
""Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and esta...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books
2020
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| Edición: | First trade paperback edition : august 2020 |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991011474035308016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 mount intervention
- Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been
- Mediation: the search for a mechanism
- Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions
