Elements of Causal Inference av Jonas (Associate Professor of Statistics University of Copenhagen) Peters, Dominik (Senior Research Scientist Max Plan

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<b>A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.</b><p>The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data.<br><br>After explaining the need for causal models and discussing some of the principles underlying causal inference, the book teaches readers how to use causal models: how to compute intervention distributions, how to infer causal models from observational and interventional data, and how causal ideas could be exploited for classical machine learning problems. All of these topics are discussed first in terms of two variables and then in the more general multivariate case. The bivariate case turns out to be a particularly hard problem for causal learning because there are no conditional independences as us