The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Ranked #5 in Biostatistics, Ranked #9 in Neural Networks — see more rankings.
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 and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things,... more
"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 and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things,... more
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D.a. Wallach @EricTopol @yudapearl @bschoelkopf @MPI_IS I love @yudapearl 's book so much! Profound, heterodox. (Source)
Kirk Borne .@yudapearl wrote the awesome "Book of Why", but he recommends this fun and less #mathematics-heavy read >> his #AI lecture given in 1999: https://t.co/kNYIoJ8qcY #DataScience #MachineLearning #Statistics #BookofWhy #Causalinference #Bayes https://t.co/CNQlKP8cU3 (Source)
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The Book of Why is ranked in the following categories:
- #61 in Analysis
- #25 in Artificial Intelligence
- #59 in Business Planning
- #15 in Business Statistics
- #50 in Data Science
- #27 in Deep Learning
- #30 in Machine Learning
- #36 in Philosophy Of Science
- #21 in Probability
- #18 in Statistics
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