Format:
x, 418 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780465097609
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046509760X
Content:
"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"...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index, Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
Äquivalent
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebook ISBN 978-0-465-09761-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Computer Science
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Political Science
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Mathematics
Keywords:
Kausalität
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Korrelation
;
Schlussfolgern
;
Logik
;
Kausalität
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