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Causation, Prediction, and Search
Spirtes, Peter; Glymour, Clark; Scheines, Richard
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Paperback. Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics. Num Pages: 554 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 831.
This book is intended for anyone, regardless of discipline, who is interested in the use of statistical methods to help obtain scientific explanations or to predict the outcomes of actions, experiments or policies. Much of G. Udny Yule's work illustrates a vision of statistics whose goal is to investigate when and how causal influences may be reliably inferred, and their comparative strengths estimated, from statistical samples. Yule's enterprise has been largely replaced by Ronald Fisher's conception, in which there is a fundamental cleavage between experimental and non experimental inquiry, and statistics is largely unable to aid in causal inference without ... Read more
This book is intended for anyone, regardless of discipline, who is interested in the use of statistical methods to help obtain scientific explanations or to predict the outcomes of actions, experiments or policies. Much of G. Udny Yule's work illustrates a vision of statistics whose goal is to investigate when and how causal influences may be reliably inferred, and their comparative strengths estimated, from statistical samples. Yule's enterprise has been largely replaced by Ronald Fisher's conception, in which there is a fundamental cleavage between experimental and non experimental inquiry, and statistics is largely unable to aid in causal inference without ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
554
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Statistics
Number of Pages
530
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461276500
SKU
V9781461276500
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