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020			_a9780465097609 _q(hardcover)
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050			_aQ175.32.C38 _bP43 2018
082			_a501 _223
100	1		_aPearl, Judea, _eauthor. _918328
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
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
501			_aP.B
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 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.
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"--
650		0	_aCausation.
650		0	_aInference. _918329
700	1		_aMackenzie, Dana, _eauthor. _918330
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