Causation, prediction, and search.

The authors address the assumptions and methods that allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and use even incomplete causal knowledge in planning and prediction to influence and control our environment. What assumptions and methods allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, an...

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Tác giả chính: Spirtes, Peter
Tác giả khác: Glymour, Clark N., Scheines, Richard
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Phiên bản:2nd ed. /
Loạt:Adaptive computation and machine learning.
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Mục lục:
  • 1. Introduction and advertisement
  • 2. Formal preliminaries
  • 3. Causation and prediction : axioms and explications
  • 4. Statistical indistinguishability
  • 5. Discovery algorithms for causally sufficient structures
  • 6. Discovery algorithms without causal sufficiency
  • 7. Prediction
  • 8. Regression, causation, and prediction
  • 9. The design of empirical studies
  • 10. The structure of the unobserved
  • 11. Elaborating linear theories with unmeasured variables
  • 12. Prequels and sequels
  • 13. Proofs of theorems.