Wow! eBook
Causation, Prediction, and Search Reprint Edition
Author(s): Peter Spirtes (Author)
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: January 29, 2001
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 568 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262527928
- ISBN-13: 9780262527927
Book Description
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.
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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.
