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This is heavily studied by Judea Pearl. I highly recommend his papers and books. The high-level summary is that you need to specify your causal assumptions and
by tel 13y ago
This is heavily studied by Judea Pearl. I highly recommend his papers and books. The high-level summary is that you need to specify your causal assumptions and then use that information to justify or disprove experiments and tests as being sufficient to make causal claims.
- cma 13y agoHe won a Turing Award in 2011 for his work. Haven't read it yet, but this is supposedly where to start: http://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pearl/dp/052189560X http://www.amazon.com/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pe...
- tel 13y agoThat's a fantastic book, but it goes into a great deal of detail. There are a few overview papers that are easier to get into.