Causality, Probability, and Time

Name: Causality, Probability, and Time
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ISBN: 9781107026483

ISBN-10: 1107026482

ISBN-13: 9781107026483

Edition: 2012

Authors: Samantha Kleinberg

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Causality is a key part of many fields and facets of life, from finding the relationship between diet and disease to discovering the reason for a particular stock market crash. Despite centuries of work in philosophy and decades of computational research, automated inference and explanation remains an open problem. In particular, the timing and complexity of relationships has been largely ignored even though this information is critically important for prediction, explanation, and intervention. However, given the growing availability of large observational datasets including those from electronic health records and social networks, it is a practical necessity. This book presents a new…

Book details

List price: $118.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 265
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.53" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Samantha Kleinberg is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received a PhD in Computer Science and a BA in Computer Science and Physics from New York University.




Introduction



A brief history of causality



Probability, logic and probabilistic temporal logic



Defining causality



Inferring causality



Token causality



Case studies



Conclusion



A little bit of statistics



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