Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes - Couverture souple

Kleinberg, Samantha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1491949643 ISBN 13 : 9781491949641

Editeur : O'Reilly Media, 2016

Synopsis

Can drinking coffee help people live longer? What makes a stock's price go up? Why did you get the flu? Causal questions like these arise on a regular basis, but most people likely have not thought deeply about how to answer them.

This book helps you think about causality in a structured way: What is a cause, what are causes good for, and what is compelling evidence of causality? Author Samantha Kleinberg shows you how to develop a set of tools for thinking more critically about causes. You'll learn how to question claims, identify causes, make decisions based on causal information, and verify causes through further tests.

Whether it's figuring out what data you need, or understanding that the way you collect and prepare data affects the conclusions you can draw from it, Why will help you sharpen your causal inference skills.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Samantha Kleinberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in computer science from New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: O'Reilly Media
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1491949643
• ISBN 13: 9781491949641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: O'Reilly; https://oreilly.com; ; 1005 Gravenstein Highway North; Sebastopol; CA; 95472; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible