Causality
- ISBN-10
- 052189560X
- ISBN-13
- 9780521895606
- Series
- Causality
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-14
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Judea Pearl
Description
Causality offers the first comprehensive coverage of causal analysis in many sciences, including recent advances using graphical methods. Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, statistical associations, actions and observations. The book will open the way for including causal analysis in the standard curriculum of statistics, artificial intelligence ...
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Other editions
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- 2000-03-13
- 412 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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- 2020-02-21
- 437 pages
- Ebook
- Liverpool University Press
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- 2014
- 325 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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