Causation, Prediction, and Search (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

Spirtes, Peter

ISBN 10: 0262527928 / ISBN 13: 9780262527927

Published by MIT Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causation, Prediction, and Search (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262527928
• ISBN 13: 9780262527927
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The authors address the assumptions and methods that allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and use even incomplete causal knowledge in planning and prediction to influence and control our environment.

About the Author

Peter Spirtes is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Clark Glymour is Alumni University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He is the author of The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology (MIT Press), Galileo in Pittsburgh, and other books.

Richard Scheines is Dean of Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon.