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010			_a 2017056458
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100	1		_aPearl, Judea, _eauthor. _9367094
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, NY : _bBasic Books, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_ax, 418 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"May 2018"--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 373-404) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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 Mount 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.
520			_a"Correlation is not causation"--This was one of the standards of scientific belief for a century. Now Pearl and his colleagues establish causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. Causality doesn't just enable us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is not just a victory for common sense, but a revolution in the study of the world.--adapted from dust jacket.
650		0	_aCausation. _952534
650		0	_aInference. _9369329
700	1		_aMackenzie, Dana, _eauthor. _9369330
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