Cause and effect: it's at the center of scientific inquiry, and yet for decades scientists had no way of answering simple questions, such as whether smoking causes cancer. In The Book of Why , Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie show how Pearl's work...
Judea Pearl is a world-renowned Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, known for his world-leading work in AI and the development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of causal and count
Causality is central to the understanding and use of data. Without an understanding of causeâeffect relationships, we cannot use data to answer questions as basic as "Does this treatment harm or help patients?" But though hundreds...