Causality, Probability, and Time - Couverture souple

Kleinberg, Samantha

 
9781107686014: Causality, Probability, and Time

Synopsis

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 approach to inference (finding relationships from a set of data) and explanation (assessing why a particular event occurred), addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships. The practical use of the method developed is illustrated through theoretical and experimental case studies, demonstrating its feasibility and success.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samantha Kleinberg is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Computer Science and Physics from New York University.

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9781107026483: Causality, Probability, and Time

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1107026482 ISBN 13 :  9781107026483
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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