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Interesting, is there a law or algorithm/equation for that?
by arca_vorago 9y ago
Interesting, is there a law or algorithm/equation for that?
- epistasis 9y agoEdit: sorry, instrumental variables do not describe what the original poster was talking about, but could be useful for understanding the connections between correlation and causation in other ways. The concept of an instrumental variable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variable covers some of it. Judea Pearl's book Causality summarizes lots of recent (past few decades) work in the area, with a focus on his theoretical framework. There are lots of algorithms for discovering the structural of causality for sets of variables larger than three. Having interventional data always makes these things easier, but it's not the only way to get at causality.
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