The Book of Why: (Record no. 60064)
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| fixed length control field | 01897 a2200229 4500 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780141982410 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 177 |
| Item number | PEA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Pearl, Judea |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Book of Why: |
| Sub Title | The New Science of Cause and Effect |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Books |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 418p. |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Mind over data<br/>The ladder of causation<br/>From buccaneers to guinea pigs: the genesis of causal inference<br/>From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes<br/>Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable<br/>The smoke-filled debate: clearing the air<br/>Paradoxes galore!<br/>Beyond adjustment: the conquest of mount intervention<br/>Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been<br/>Mediation: the search for a mechanism<br/>Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables 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 shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Causation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Probabilities |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Inference (Logique) |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mackenzie, Dana |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | First Floor, Rack No: 1, Shelf No: 6 | 177 PEA | 77592 | BOOKS |