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050 0 0 _aQ175.32.C38
_bP43 2018
082 0 0 _a501 PEA
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100 1 _aPearl, Judea,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe book of why :
_bThe new science of cause and effect /
_cJudea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2018
300 _ax, 418 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe ladder of causation; From buccaneers to guinea pigs: the genesis of causal inference; From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes; Confounding and DE confounding: 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
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCausation.
650 0 _aInference.
700 1 _aMackenzie, Dana,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aPearl, Judea, author.
_tBook of why
_dNew York : Basic Books, [2018]
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