The Resource The book of why : the new science of cause and effect, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
The book of why : the new science of cause and effect, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 418 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780465097609
- Label
- The book of why : the new science of cause and effect
- Title
- The book of why
- Title remainder
- the new science of cause and effect
- Statement of responsibility
- Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- OU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pearl, Judea
- Dewey number
- 501
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Mackenzie, Dana
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Causation
- Inference
- Causation
- Inference
- SCIENCE / General
- Label
- The book of why : the new science of cause and effect, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- on1003311466
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 418 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465097609
- Lccn
- 2017056458
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1003311466
- Label
- The book of why : the new science of cause and effect, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- on1003311466
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 418 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465097609
- Lccn
- 2017056458
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1003311466
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