02796cam a22004691i 4500 20323905 BJBSDDR 20231122110958.0 ta 180126s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng c 2017056458 9781541698963 (paperback) 1541698967 (paperback) 9780465097616 (ebook) 0465097618 (ebook) OU/DLC eng OU rda eng pcc Q 175.32 P359b 2020 501 Pearl, Judea, 1936- 32090 The book of why : the new science of cause and effect / Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. First trade paperback edition New York : Basic Books, 2020 x, 418 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Causation. Causalidad 11302 Inference. Inferencia 23092 Deducción 33133 Mackenzie, Dana author 33134 Online version: Pearl, Judea, author. Book of why New York : Basic Books, [2018] 9780465097616 (DLC) 2018005510 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 120041 120041 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-08-30 0 Q 175.32 P359b 2020 00000174120 2023-08-30 00:00:00 1 2023-08-30 BK