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

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Pearl, Judea (Author), Mackenzie, Dana (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, 2018.
Edition:	Firest edition.
Subjects:	Causation. Inference. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.