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020			_a9780141982410 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a177 _bPEA
100			_aPearl, Judea
245			_aThe Book of Why: _bThe New Science of Cause and Effect
260			_bPenguin Books _c2018 _aNew Delhi
300			_ax, 418p. _bill.
505			_aMind 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"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			_aCausation
650			_aProbabilities
650			_aInference (Logique)
690			_aGeneral
700			_aMackenzie, Dana
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