The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie

Book Overview

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence

"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 046509760X
• ISBN13: 9780465097609
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"