Causation, prediction, and search

zbMath0806.62001MaRDI QIDQ1204149

Peter Spirtes, Richard Scheines, Clark Glymour

Publication date: 30 March 1993

Published in: Lecture Notes in Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

samplingestimationprobability distributionspredictionsregressionopen problemsindistinguishabilityaxiomscausal inferenceexperimental designcausal structurecausal relationshipsdiscovery algorithmscausally sufficient structurescomputationally efficient search procedureslinear theoriesunmeasured variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02)

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