Causation, Prediction, and Search

by Clark N. Glymour, Peter Spirtes, Richard Scheines, et al.

Book Overview

This book is intended for anyone, regardless of discipline, who is interested in the use of statistical methods to help obtain scientific explanations or to predict the outcomes of actions, experiments or policies. Much of G. Udny Yule's work illustrates a vision of statistics whose goal is to investigate when and how causal influences may be reliably inferred, and their comparative strengths estimated, from statistical samples. Yule's enterprise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461276500
• ISBN13: 9781461276500
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"